Posted on 07/23/2004 2:52:12 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
WASHINGTON, July 23: Bangladesh, Nigeria, Poland and Ethiopia were the top finishers in the US visa lottery, which granted 50,000 permanent residence visas, or "green cards," allowing recipients to live and work in the United States, the US State Department said Thursday.
The "diversity lottery," held each year under the US Immigration and Nationality Act, distributes the visas to residents of countries which have low immigration rates to the United States.
Applicants were selected at random from a total of some 9.5 million applications submitted from November 1 to December 30, 2003, said the State Department.
Bangladesh got 7,404 visas, Nigeria 6,725, Poland 6,211 and Ethiopia 6,060. Countries with heavy immigration to the United States, including Canada, China (minus Hong Kong and Taiwan), Colombia, Pakistan, The Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Britain (minus Northern Ireland) and Vietnam, were excluded from the lottery. AFP
I give up. I've tried to be rational with you. Have a nice evening.
April 2004 signup - hmmmm
You are playing the old when did you join FR trick! Wrong answer! I joined FR 6 years ago, under another screenname, long story, too tired to go there tonight. Just quit attacking fellow conservatives over petty crap, OK?
That's your M.O.
Thanks sir.
I got your M.O. hangin' pal!
You're not even close.
Go for it newbie chief - what is it?
Knock it off.
You wouldn't appreciate the truth if it hit you head-on.
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There's a boatload of native-born I'd trade for hard working folks who slipped in under the radar.
Cy, drop this clown, we know who you are.
I have already done so. BTW, fwiw I don't think there should be a visa lottery.
oh thanks for clarifying that. Even so, we are still drawing people from Canada, Britian, Western Europe and the Scandanavian coutnries. People vote with their feet.
Still,that post doesn't say quite what you purported cyborg said,now does it? There are qualifiers and actually,she is allowed to have an opinion,every much as you are.Are you going to tell me that some Americans aren't lazy and that ALL illegals are come here just for the freebies?
And before you attempt to tar me with that gigantic brush of yours,I should inform you that I have NEVER and shall NEVER hire an illegal and think that ALL illegals should be rounded up and sent home,charging their home nations for the ride.
It doesn't and he knows it. I'll never hire an illegal immmigrant over an American. EVER. BTW, posting a forun contributors comments is a tactic of the TOS and perhaps that's where some would feel more comfortable. Or maybe in Stormfront perhaps. I hear they're wanting to come here!
And how do you know that some here aren't also there?It's the same tactics. :-)
Well,I for one am happy about the last statistic.
The odd thing about where I live in Seattle is the large number of Somalians and Ethiopians I have encountered here.
Sarc, I hate to say it, but it is near IMPOSSIBLE to find an able bodies native born person (white, black, Nuyorican) to clean your house or do your yardwork in the New York area. I wouldn't hire anyone from the Red Hook projects (native born all) to pull my weeds, let alone clean my house.
Then there are the Bengalis, another bunch of Moose Limbs open to radical influence and who refuse to assimilate. Just drop by the corner of Church avenues and MacDonald avenues in Brooklyn and see them all dressed in the traditional finery as if they were back in Dacca. Their kids dress like they were back in Bengal instead of wearing American dress.
I think in a couple of generations we should not be surprised that like Orthodox jews who have been here a few generations they will still neither look like us nor adapt to our ways but will remain a separate "colony" (community?).
Enough with the multiculturalist crap already!!!!
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