For years, I’ve been asking here on the blog why the apparently insane diversity visa lottery exists. Even as a leftist, I couldn’t understand that. The whole idea is too stupid. But now I have the answer:
US District Judge Jinsook Ohta has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the diversity visa lottery for 2027, issuing a preliminary injunction to allow 55,000 people from around the world to apply for permanent residence in the US.
Treating a nation’s citizenship like a gambling operation is insulting and ridiculous. It’s incomprehensible to me why a judge should have any say on the existence of the visa lottery at all.
Yes, it’s 55,000 people, which is a very small number, but it’s the principle of the thing that is so appalling. No judge should have the power to dilute the meaning of nationhood.
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