[Viet-Boat-Rider]

How many Visa's did mexico get? Let me guess...Ummmm 11,000,000?

[cripplecreek]

Bangladesh, Nigeria, Poland and Ethiopia


Well at least Poland isn't a terrorism risk for us.

[traviskicks]

hmmmmm... why are Canadians and Britians coming here? Perhaps they want to get paid what they're worth for the work that they do? So much for socialism...

[usurper]

This is a very important program. We are running out of poor people, we need to import them now or our country will lack diversity.

[Poundstone]

This whole visa lottery program is an outrageous assault on America. The main instigator of the program ten years ago was ... Ted Kennedy (that's a fact).

I know one Japanese woman who was married to an African. They were living in Japan. The husband insisted his wife apply for the lottery (she wasn't really interested). She won a visa, so she and her husband immigrated. Now the husband, who's a permanent resident, has brought in over one dozen of his relatives after petitioning for their visas. They all live in one slum-house. This kind of "cascading immigration" based on the original entry of just one family member is what's turning many of our urban areas into third world tenements.

[sarcasm]

Just what we need - more third-world illiterates.

[valkyrieanne]

This is just wrong.

[Solamente]

Most of them were in the subway car I rode home to Brooklyn on.

[dead]

Bangladesh is a country that needs leaving.

[VeniVidiVici]

We still do this? What a waste of time and money.

If the borders are not controlled, why bother?

That said, I do think we should reward our steadfast allies, such as Poland, visaless entry.

[drq]

My grandparents immigrated here from Europe around 1902.
I asssume most of the folks here also have relatives who were immigrants as well.
I got no problem with it as long as they follow the rules to get in.

[novacation]

Great! We need more Ethiopian brain surgeons and Nigerian nuclear scientists.

[novacation]

ping

[txdoda]

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.

AMAZING.......9.5 Million applicants (in TWO months) wanting to come to the USA to work & live LEGALLY......& only 50K get a chance.

Meanwhile 75% of our politicians spend much time & tax dollars *rewarding* the MILLIONS of illegals already here.......& citizens are told daily "we need all those illegal workers, the country *can't function* without them".

Boot the illegals, & bring in more legals, *if* we need the labor.

[Clemenza]

Bangladesh got 7,404 visas, Nigeria 6,725, Poland 6,211

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.