Trump: Visa Diversity Program ‘Is a Disaster for Our Country’

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TRUMP: “Before we begin I want to make a brief announcement. I had an excellent meeting today with Chairman Grassley lawmakers on immigration reform. Following the terrorist attack in New York I’m calling on Congress to immediately terminate the diversity visa lottery program. It’s a disaster for our country. This program grants visas not on a basis of merit but simply because applicants are randomly selected in an annual lottery. The people put in that lottery are not that country’s finest. We know that the program presents significant vulnerabilities to our national security. It is a very unsafe program for our country and we are not going to allow it to happen to end that program. So I think Congress will take that up very quickly."