The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website February 26, 2018:
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) was involved in creating the diversity lottery program, but the story doesn’t stop there. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
“Think of the lottery. You have a country, they put names in. You think they’re giving us their good people? Not too many of you people are going to be in a lottery. So we pick out people, then they turn out to be horrendous and we don’t understand why. They’re not giving us their best people, folks. They’re not giving us — I mean, use your heads. They’re giving us — it’s a lottery. I don’t want people coming into this country with a lottery. I want people coming into this country based on merit, based on merit.”
— President Trump, in remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Feb. 23, 2018 Continue reading “President Trump’s consistent misrepresentation of how the diversity visa lottery works”