Op-ed: Sunset the Diversity Visa Lottery Program

Four years of the Biden administration’s unprecedented porous border policies have rightly left a majority of Americans determined to put an end to illegal immigration. They are more than ready to lock the national backdoor and restore the rule of law to the movement of foreigners into the United States.

President Donald Trump fiercely opposes illegal immigrants entering and staying in the U.S., but his mood on legal arrivals seems to swing back and forth. He seems caught up in the usual confused American ethos on immigration, and like many of his countrymen, he has not fully thought through the consequences of the country’s out-of-date laws or the fact that the government’s people-importing business contains more than its share of unappetizing sausage-making.

One piece of America’s legal immigration complex that is overdue for the waste bin is the so-called Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, which Congress created in 1990 based on the quaint notion that the U.S. was being deprived because some countries were not sending enough migrants. If that pretext — lack of diversity of immigrants — were true 3 1/2 decades ago, it most certainly is no longer.

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