{"id":16601,"date":"2018-03-07T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16601"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:46:28","slug":"cato-goes-diversity-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/03\/07\/cato-goes-diversity-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cato Goes All In On Diversity Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"
Under fire for its terrorist links and capricious selections, America\u2019s \u201cDiversity Lottery\u201d (DV program) is getting some lame backup from the open-borders crowd at the Cato Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n The libertarian think tank has taken to touting the DV program\u2019s randomly selected recipients of U.S. green cards, asserting that they\u2019re so much better educated than this country\u2019s native-born citizens.<\/p>\n Amid their spin, the fine minds at Cato aren\u2019t shooting straight.<\/p>\n Cato\u2019s claim that \u201cnearly half of all diversity immigrants who arrived in 2015 had college degrees\u201d may, or may not, be correct. No government reports on the visa program<\/a> confirm Cato\u2019s finding.<\/p>\n In the absence of actual data, Cato makes assumptions. It generalizes the demographic profiles of immigrants from sending countries and applies them to winners of the random lottery. Then it uses a 15-year-old study to conclude that educational attainment of diversity migrants has remained consistent even as the lottery list shifted toward Third World nations like Ghana and the Congo.<\/p>\n The goal of the DV program is to admit more immigrants from “countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States,” according to the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n The big winner in the 2016 DV sweepstakes was Nepal, a predominantly Hindu nation with a 66 percent literacy rate. Next was Egypt, followed by Iran, the Congo, Uzbekistan and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n Even if Cato\u2019s not-so-educated guesses were in the ballpark, they strike out by failing to even mention, let alone address, the diversity lottery\u2019s documented national-security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n Six known terrorists<\/a> entered the U.S. via the lottery, and 30,000 came from terror-linked nations in the past decade as the Obama administration tweaked diversity quotas in favor of Muslim countries.<\/p>\n Among the supposedly well-schooled lottery winners was Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov<\/a>, the 29-year-old Uzbek national who mowed down a crowd of bicyclists and pedestrians last Halloween in New York.<\/p>\n