DHS/IMMIGRATION/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-1-17] slammed a visa lottery program that he said gave entry to the U.S for the driver of a rental truck who plowed into pedestrians and cyclists in New York…
Mr. Saipov came to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010, officials said. Immigration officials haven’t said publicly how Mr. Saipov entered the country, and a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately respond to a request seeking comment Wednesday.
Republicans have long tried to end the program and many Democrats have been willing to do so as part of a larger, comprehensive immigration bill. In 2007 and 2013, broad-based overhaul bills included provisions to kill the diversity lottery and use those visas for a merit-based system, but both measures died amid Republican opposition…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday morning that the last thing the president or anybody else should do is politicize this tragedy. He said the focus should be on finding out what motivated the attacker.”
-Alicia A. Caldwell and Laura Meckler, “Trump Slams Visa Program He Says Gave Entry to New York Attacker,” The Wall Street Journal online, Nov. 1, 2017 10:19am