By the same token, a lottery tells us nothing about who is entering this country,” Sessions said of the 27-year-old program designed to diversify the immigrant population in the United States. What is the green card law Trump wants to scrap after the New York attack? To further promote the White House’s “extreme vetting” policies, Sessions also attacked the country’s refugee vetting process, which is among the most rigorous in the western world. Neema Singh Guliani, legislative counsel with the ACLU, said that Sessions’ defense of the law was misleading and inaccurate. Sessions’ speech was planned long before the Tuesday attack that killed eight and injured 12 more in downtown New York City.

Source: The Guardian November 02, 2017 17:08 UTC