Ask your U.S. Representative to Cosponsor H.R. 704 to End the Visa Lottery

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Ask your U.S. Representative to Cosponsor H.R. 704 to End the Visa Lottery
 
On July 20, the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 704, the SAFE for America Act to end the visa lottery. The bill now goes to the full House of Representatives for a vote. Please send this fax to your Democratic U.S. Representative and urge him/her to cosponsor the bill.






The visa lottery gives 50,000 green cards to people without any regard to their humanitarian need or to what they might offer the country or to their having any family connections here. Considering that 22 million Americans cannot find a job, it is unwise to continue to allow tens of thousands of immigrants to come to this country without regard to their skills, education, or job prospects.





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The visa lottery promotes massive illegal migration by people who think they may some day win the lottery and be allowed to stay in the United States. The late Barbara Jordan, as Chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, recommended the elimination of the visa lottery. A 2004 hearing of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims examined the visa lottery program and its susceptibility to fraud and abuse. At the hearing, witness Jan Ting, professor of law at Temple University, said that the lottery program is unfair because spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents often have to wait years for a visa, while the U.S. hands out 50,000 visas a year purely on the basis of a random lottery. Ting also noted that the lottery discriminates on the basis of ethnicity and race.





According to a Center for Immigration Studies report, the following people were given legal status through the visa lottery:





Hesham Hedayet, who killed airline personnel at LAX on July 4, 2002.





Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, a U.S. Hamas leader who was detained for terrorist activities and deported in 1997.











Similar legislation was passed by a broad, bipartisan majority (273 - 148) of bipartisan members in the House during the 109th Congress as an amendment to the House's enforcement-only bill (H.R. 4437), received 59 cosponsors during the 110th Congress (H.R. 1430), and 61 cosponsors during the 111th Congress (H.R. 2305).