Let's Revise the Visa Lottery to Take Pressure Off the Southern Border
By David North on August 14, 2019
There is a way — Congress willing — to ease some of the pressure on the southern border without increasing legal immigration to United States by re-directing the allocation of the 50,000-a-year diversity lottery so that it nibbles at immigration from Egypt, Nepal, and Iran, for example, and increases legal migration from the Northern Triangle.
But it would not increase the total legal migration to the United States by a single person.
We are not particularly threatened by masses of illegal immigrants from, for example, Egypt, Iran, and Nepal, yet we are from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Meanwhile, the visa lottery is a senseless throw-away of 50,000 visas a year to people with no remarkable skill sets, and no particular connection to the United States. The program should be terminated, but as long as it's around let's see if we can put it to some use vis-a-vis the outward migration pressures from Central America.
Here is the distribution of the lottery visas for the three largest recipients in 2016:
https://cis.org/North/Lets-Revise-Visa-Lottery-Take-Pressure-Southern-Border
