A plan championed by Vice President Kamala Harris on the presidential campaign trail would import more migrants to American cities and towns through the Diversity Visa Lottery — an immigration program infamous for bringing a convicted Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist to the United States.
Last week, in an exclusive sit-down interview on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, Harris praised the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. As Breitbart News reported, that legislation includes a broad amnesty for most of the nation’s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens, and would ensure they are fast-tracked into naturalized American citizenship.
Another key component of the legislation, though, is an expansion of the wildly unpopular Diversity Visa Lottery. In 2018, about 3 in 5 likely voters said they wanted to see the Diversity Visa Lottery ended.
Created by the Immigration Act of 1990, first introduced by then-Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and signed into law by then-President George H.W. Bush, the Diversity Visa Lottery randomly gives out about 55,000 visas every year to foreign nationals from a multitude of countries, including those facing widespread terrorism such as Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Yemen, and Uzbekistan.