* The Diversity Visa Lottery ensures we have a few hundred immigrants from each and every African country a year, so when the time for Saint Camp arrives, we in the USA won’t get left out, but will have a few thousand nationals with a few hundred thousand relatives back home to urge them to come, loan them money for plane tickets, and help them work the system.
It was part of the 1990 Immigration Act. Only three Republican senators voted against it, Jesse Helms, Pete Wilson, and Warren Rudman. 14 Democrats voted against it, 11 conservative southern or midwestern democrats, including Al Gore, and Dick Shelby who later became a Republican. Three liberal Democrats voted against it for reasons unclear.
Ted Kennedy was the main sponsor. In addition to the 55,000 literally random lottery winners who get immediate permanent residency, the bill overall increased annual legal immigration subject to quotas from 500,000 to 700,000. That greatly understates the increase, because it also created Temporary Protected Status.
While the Diversity Visa hands out permanent residency to a random collection of Third World crapholes, TPS is focused on opening our borders to the worst people in the world, at least judged by what such people have done to their homelands. Here are the largest beneficiaries:
El Salvador (by far #1)
Honduras
Haiti
Nicaragua
Syria
Somalia
Sudan
South Sudan
El Salvador seems to be most famous for the origin of the Mara Salvatrucha gang and the mass rape of nuns during its endless civil wars.
Since 1992, the other nations given the privilege of TPS include Angola, Kosovo, Burundi, Rwanda, and Bosnia. The newest winner is Yemen, which received the good news last month.
It appears the law was initially included to let in a few hundred Tibetans as a way of poking China’s eye, and China was indeed the first nation granted TPS in 1990, revoked in 1992.
The government does not much try to keep tabs on TPS, and I could not find any official statistics on a federal government website. Some researchers came up with 300,000, but that number is only those who officially applied and were granted TPS.
TPS provides a lot of protections even if you don’t even apply for it. For example, if you come here illegally from Somalia or Haiti, you can just work off the books, make an anchor baby, etc for years. If you ever get caught in the system, only at that point would you need to take the hassle to sign up for TPS, which prevents you from being deported and gives you a work visa.
Thus, the Dallas Fed released a paper noting that there were, as of 2000, 430,000 illegal Salvadorian immigrants, but only about half of them had bothered to sign up for TPS.
* For a less anodyne view of the effects of men standing around chewing khat all day, try “Black Hawk Down.” The resulting behavior pattern is explored at book-length.
* Between the 1950s and the 2030s:
Ethiopia: 3 full population doublings (20mil. to 160 mil.)
Germany: 0 population doublings among ethnic Germans (in fact, zero net growth by natives and millions of non-Europeans added)
If ethnic Germans had three doublings in the same period (1950-2030s), there would be 560 million Germans by the 2030s, or more than the entire population of the EU.
