BREAKING NEWS: Trump says ‘Send him to Gitmo’ as he considers banishing ‘animal’ New York terror suspect to military prison and tells Congress to get rid of diversity lottery that gave Uzbek national a green card
President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he might send terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov to the Guantanamo Bay military prison
‘Send him to Gitmo,’ Trump said at the White House; ‘I would certainly consider that’
Trump called Saipov ‘an animal’ a day after he allegedly moved down eight people in New York City with a rented truck, then yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’
The president said he’s begun winding down the ‘diversity’ visa lottery program, but he doesn’t have the legal authority to wipe it off the books
By David Martosko, US Political Editor
DailyMail.com
1 November 2017
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would consider sending Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek national who plowed a rented truck through a bike lane full of cyclists and pedestrians on Tuesday, to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
‘I would certainly consider that, yes. I would certainly consider that. Send him to Gitmo,’ Trump said.
The president also declared that he is already moving to terminate the State Department’s diversity-oriented visa lottery program, which granted Saipov entry into the United States in 2010.
‘I am today starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery program. I’m going to ask Congress to immediately initiate or get rid of this program,’ he said.
rump called Saipov ‘an animal’ during remarks before a cabinet meeting at the White House.
‘He came in through the diversity program as you know, and we’re going to stop it,’ the president vowed.
The president does not have the authority to unilaterally end the lottery program that was implemented by Congress in 1990.
He has endorsed Senate legislation that would replace it with a merit-based program, but it is not guaranteed to pass even if it comes to the floor for a vote.
The White House could order the State Department to reduce the maximum number of lottery visas awarded annually from 50,000 to as few as zero.
‘The “diversity lottery” – sounds nice. It’s not nice. It’s not good,’ Trump told reporters.
‘We want a merit-based program’ for immigration, Trump said, ‘where people come into our country based on merit.’
‘And we do not want chain migration, where ultimately someone like him will be allowed to bring in many, many members of his family,’ Trump said.
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