US visas issued to immigrants from terror-sponsoring states.

Investors Business Daily has this editorial:

Immigration: Talk about confused. The State Department lists terror-sponsoring states, then lets immigrants from those states into the U.S. in the name of cultural diversity.
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The GAO report quoted a U.S. security officer in Turkey as saying it would be possible for Iranian intelligence officers to pose as applicants and not be detected if their identities were not already known to U.S. intelligence.

In pooh-poohing the report, State noted that GAO investigators could find no documented evidence of immigrants from terror states committing any terrorist acts.

Maybe not from terror states. But plenty have obtained diversity visas from terror-friendly states.

Look no further than the post-9/11 case of the Egyptian terrorist who shot up the El Al Israel Airlines ticket counter at LAX, killing two and wounding three others.

Mohamed Hadayet was in the country because he had won permanent residency through his wife, who had obtained a visa through the Diversity Visa Program.

Both the Czech Republic and Poland are quite miffed because they cannot participate in the Visa Waiver Program, a program that allows nationals of certain countries to travel to the United States for tourism or business for stays of 90 days or less without obtaining a visa.

To read the specific report go here.
To find out what the Diveristy Visa Program is all about, go here.

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