12/13/2017 - Michelle Malkin
Capitol Hill's national
security priorities are screwier than a Six Flags roller coaster.
Instead of immediately
shutting down one of America's stupidest visa programs, which helped bring us
yet another murder-minded jihadist this week, bipartisan Beltway politicians
are pushing to preserve and expand the illegal immigration pipeline. Republicans
and Democrats in Congress want a "fix" for the Obama administration's
executive amnesty covering nearly 700,000 illegal immigrants -- and they want
it pronto.
Translation: Protecting
border-hopping "DREAMers" is a more important priority in Washington
than protecting Americans from infiltrators exploiting the diversity visa
lottery.
You remember the hew
and cry over the diversity visa lottery, right? It was just seven short weeks
ago when America discovered that New York City truck jihadist Sayfullo Saipov,
who ruthlessly mowed down eight people on a bike path, had entered our country
from Uzbekistan in 2010 by pure, random luck through the DV lottery program.
President Donald Trump called on Congress to end it.
Saipov followed in the
footsteps of Hesham Hadayet, the Egyptian-born LAX jihadist who gunned down two
people at Israel's El Al airlines counter in 2002 and gained entry through his
lottery-winning wife; Imran Mandhai, the Pakistan-born jihadist who plotted
National Guard armory bombings in Florida and gained entry through his parents'
lottery luck; Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, another Uzbek jihadist and lottery
winner convicted of supporting terrorism; Syed Ahmed, a Pakistan-born jihadist
and DV recipient convicted of terrorism-related activities in the U.S. and
abroad in 2009; and Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, a Hamas leader deported for
terrorism activities in 1997 who had snagged a green card thanks to the DV
lottery program's original iteration.
Up to 55,000 lucky
winners a year have secured permanent residency visas (green cards) through the
diversity visa lottery since 1990, which put them on the path to American
citizenship ahead of millions of other foreigners patiently waiting to come to
this country. The green card lotto winners' spouses and unmarried children
under 21 all get lottery passes into the country, too, no matter where they
were born. Chain migration extends the families' winnings. And so on, and so
on, and so on.
As I've reported
tirelessly since 9/11, when counterterrorism experts and immigration watchdogs
united against the fraud-riddled, ill-conceived DV lottery, applicants don't
even need a high school education. No outstanding abilities, training or job
skills are necessary. Illegal aliens are eligible if a legal family member wins
the jackpot. Tens of thousands are pouring in from terrorism breeding grounds
through the lottery unvetted, unmonitored and unassimilated.
Justice Department
investigators recently discovered one Somali woman who won the DV lottery and
subsequently recruited an entire fake family, including a phony husband and two
fictitious adult children, all of whom came to the United States and later
gained U.S. citizenship based on their false claims.
A U.N. probe found
human traffickers forcing dozens of diversity visa lottery winners into listing
young female sex slaves as their "family members" to gain entry in
the U.S.
And a State Department
official testified in 2011 that in Bangladesh, "one agent is reported to
have enrolled an entire phone book so that he could then either extort money
from winning applicants who had never entered the program to begin with or sell
their winning slots to others."
As usual, however,
Congress has done precisely nothing to stop the ruinous racket created by the
late Teddy Kennedy and signed off by President George H.W. Bush as a social
engineering experiment to admit more "underrepresented" immigrant
minorities into the U.S. The latest bill containing an end to the DV lottery
program, the "RAISE Act," sponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton and David
Perdue, is gathering dust. Sen. Chuck Grassley's latest call to the State
Department for a "full-scale" review has yielded no movement.
And now, here we are,
with yet another DV lottery beneficiary in custody for yet another jihad
attack. Bangladeshi Akayed Ullah arrived here with a golden ticket obtained
through a relative who won the visa lottery. Before strapping on his failed
suicide vest on Monday in an attempt to inflict "maximum destruction"
on commuters at the New York Port Authority bus terminal, Ullah was the minor
child of a sibling of the original ticket holder, who became a naturalized U.S.
citizen.
Seven weeks ago, Sen.
Jeff Flake smugly tweeted to President Trump that the DV lottery program would
have been killed if only the Gang of Eight illegal alien amnesty had been
signed into law. In D.C., you see, stupid government programs will only die if
hitched to even bigger, more reckless legislative abominations.
Washington priorities
at work.
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