What is the diversity visa program?
President Trump is blasting and calling for the end of the diversity visa program after the deadly New York City terror attack. What is the diversity visa program and who is coming to the U.S. through it?
President Trump said Wednesday he would ask Congress to end the diversity visa lottery program, after it was reported that the suspect who attacked people in New York with a rented van entered the country in 2010 under that program.
"I am today starting the process of terminating the Diversity Lottery Program," Trump said in the White House. "I am going to ask Congress to immediately initiate work to get rid of this program. It sounds nice, it's not nice. It's not good."
Trump also said America has to get "much tougher" if it wants to discourage terrorists from attacking U.S. citizens at home, and said it's time to ditch "politically correct" things like the diversity visa program.
"We have to get much tougher. We have to get much smarter, and we have to get much less politically correct," the president said during a meeting with his Cabinet on Wednesday. "We're so politically correct that we're afraid to do anything."
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