American
president, Donald John Trump is taking steps to ban the initiative of
visa lottery which allows non-Americans to stay in the country.
President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump has called on Congress to end the visa
lottery programme, citing a Justice Department crackdown on a recipient
who abused resident status to finance terrorist activities abroad.
“Time to end the visa lottery,” Trump said in a Twitter post.
“Congress must secure the immigration system and protect Americans.”
Trump linked his message to a Justice Department press release
regarding a complaint to revoke the resident status of a visa lottery
program recipient who funded global terrorist activities.
The Justice Department’s complaint said a Sudanese national who
gained lawful permanent resident status through the “diversity visa
lottery program” ran a non-profit organisation, the Islamic American
Relief Agency, and through it funneled money to known terrorist
organisations in Iraq and elsewhere.
Earlier, report revealed that US immigration enforcement arrests shut up 20 per cent in 2017 versus the previous year.
The report also said that former President Barack Obama’s
immigration policy was more narrowly focused on arresting undocumented
immigrants convicted of serious crimes.
(Sputnik/NAN)
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