Shane Savitsky 53 mins ago
Trump blames Schumer-proposed immigration program for NYC attack
https://www.axios.com/trump-blames-schumer-proposed-immigration-program-for-nyc-attack-2504835993.html?utm_source=sidebar
The problem: We don't know yet if Trump's tweet can be taken as confirmation of Saipov's immigration status. The Diversity Visa Lottery tidbit about Saipov first came up in an unconfirmed local ABC7 report, which was seized on by right-wing outlets like Breitbart and Blunt Force Truth as well as former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka — seemingly to connect Schumer's prior immigration work to yesterday's deadly attack.
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The details about the Diversity Visa Program
How it works, per a Washington Post report on the program:
The program, which took effect in 1995, was designed to increase American immigration diversity by offering 50,000 visas to "low-admission" countries via a lottery.
Applicants to the program must have at least a high school education or two years of formal job training.
Most people who enter the United States under the program do so from African countries. Saipov reportedly hailed from Uzbekistan.
How it passed:
The measure that eventually became the Diversity Visa Program was indeed proposed by then-Rep. Chuck Schumer.
It was swept into a larger immigration reform package that passed both houses of Congress with bipartisan votes — including an 89-8 vote in the Senate — and was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990...............more..
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