Madam Chairman. I want to thank Chairman GOODLATTE and Ms. HERSETH for offering this amendment to eliminate the Diversity Visa Program. This program discriminates against people from Mexico and six other countries. It is susceptible to rampant fraud. It allows 50.000 people to enter the country whether or not they have family ties or needed skills and is unfair to immigrants who play by the rules. Immigrant visas are usually issued to foreign nationals who have connections to U.S. employers or family members lawfully residing in the United States. Under the visa lottery program. though. visas are awarded to immigrants at random without meeting any of these criteria. Most familysponsored immigrants currently face a wait of years to obtain visas. Yet the lottery program pushes 50.000 randomly picked immigrants ahead of those who are sponsored by family and employers. Madam Chairman. we should not have an immigration program that violates the principles of common sense. fairness and nondiscrimination.
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