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Report: NYC Foreign Terror Suspect Entered U.S. with 'Diversity Visa' Trump Wants to End
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by John Binder31 Oct 2017Washington, D.C.
The suspected foreign national terrorist behind the New York City attack that has left at least eight individuals dead came to the United States years ago through the Diversity Visa Lottery, a program that President Trump and pro-American immigration reformers have demanded an end to.
According to ABC New York, 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov - the man who allegedly mowed down pedestrians in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City - entered the U.S. in 2010 from Uzbekistan under the Diversity Visa Lottery before obtaining a Green Card.
The Diversity Visa Lottery gives out 50,000 visas every year to foreign nationals from a multitude of countries, including those with known terrorist problems - such as Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Yemen, and Uzbekistan.
Trump, though, along with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), has been calling for an end to the Diversity Visa Lottery program since August. Under the RAISE Act, introduced in February and endorsed by Trump in August, the Diversity Visa Lottery would be eliminated altogether.
The Trump administration took eliminating the Diversity Visa Lottery even more seriously earlier this month when they introduced the president's immigration priorities, which like the RAISE Act called for the elimination of the program
In an interview with Breitbart News, Cotton said the Diversity Visa Lottery does not serve the national interest, as it arbitrarily rewards random foreign nationals with visas to come to the U.S.
"The diversity lottery serves no discernible humanitarian or economic interest," Cotton explained to Breitbart News. "It is a policy that has far outlived its usefulness and it really doesn't even serve diversity since Europe is one of the primary uses of it. Even in past efforts at amnesty-first comprehensive immigration reform like we saw in 2013 and 2007, most people agree we should eliminate the diversity lottery. I think it's a policy that has far outlived its usefulness if it ever had any utility and it's time to eliminate the diversity lottery."
In 2011, just a year after the New York City foreign terror suspect, Saipov, entered the U.S. from Uzbekistan through the Diversity Visa Lottery, Center for Immigration Studies National Security Policy Director Janice Kephart testified before Congress about the security risks associated with the visa program.
"The Diversity Visa Program is an unfortunate blind spot in our immigration system that has outlived whatever purpose it might have had," Kephart explained in her testimony in 2011. "The applicants for these 50,000 'visa lottery' immigration slots require few skills. Neither their qualifications nor identity can be properly vetted. The program does not know, really, who these applicants are or their true purpose in coming to the United States. The program is a national security vulnerability and has been used by terrorists and organized criminals to not only enter the United States but to bring others in as well.
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At least 8 dead in vehicle attack; Feds investigating as Islamist terrorism
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By Douglas Ernst and Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 31, 2017
At least eight people died Tuesday in lower Manhattan after a truck driver careened his vehicle into pedestrians and then yelled "Allahu akbar" in an attack that is being investigated as Islamist terrorism.
Authorities did not publicly name the attacker, but he was identified as Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old immigrant from Uzbekistan who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State - details that prompted President Trump to order stiffer controls on immigration.
"This was an act of terror, a particularly cowardly act of terror, aimed at innocent civilians, aimed at people going about their lives who had no idea what was about to hit them," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said at an evening news conference. Besides the eight deaths, at least 11 people were badly injured, he said.
The attacker drove a white Home Depot rental truck in the wrong direction down a bicycle path near Stuyvesant High School along Manhattan's West Street and Chambers Street.
After driving 14 blocks and crashing into a school bus just after 3 p.m., he exited the car displaying two firearms - a paintball gun and a pellet gun. He was shot in the abdomen by police officers and taken into custody, said James P. O'Neill, commissioner of the New York Police Department.
He was hospitalized and had surgery Tuesday evening and is expected to live
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NYC terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov: Who is he?
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The man suspected of plowing a truck through a crowded bike lane in New York City on Tuesday is 29 years old, from Uzbekistan with a green card, Fox News has confirmed.
Police have identified Sayfullo Saipov as the suspect accused of driving a rented pickup truck into a crowd, killing at least eight people and injuring at least 11 more near the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
Saipov had worked as an Uber driver in New Jersey, where he was living as recently as this summer. Uber confirmed to Fox News that Saipov passed the company's background check for drivers, but was now banned from the company. Uber added it has not found any safety reports concerning the terror suspect.
The suspect drove a rented pickup truck through a crowded bike path for several blocks before finally crashing into a yellow school bus near Chambers and West streets, police said.
After exiting the vehicle, Saipov yelled "Allahu akbar" ("God is great") and waived around weapons believed to be a paintball gun and a BB gun, police said. The suspect was shot twice by police and taken into custody. He remains in the hospital and is expected to survive his wounds.
Law enforcement officials said they discovered two notes, handwritten in Arabic, pledging loyalty to ISIS in and near the truck, Fox News has confirmed.
The New York Post reported that some type of symbol or picture of the terrorist organization's flag was discovered.
It's been reported that Saipov rented the truck from a Home Depot store in Passaic, N.J., around 2 p.m. on Tuesday -- an hour or so before the attack occurred.
Authorities discovered that Saipov had a Florida driver's license and has been connected to an address in the Tampa area.
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Allahu Akbar-itis: America's Deadly and Debilitating Disease
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Posted: Nov 01, 2017 12:01 AM
"Shout 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers."
Who knew hijacker Mohammed Atta's parting words, discovered in his journal after the 9/11 attacks, would become a national punchline? The louder and more frequently jihadists around the globe shriek their signature battle cry, the more fervently multicultural apologists deny its meaning. They've transformed the Islamic supremacists' obvious and explicit call for violence into a bland utterance of peace as indiscernible and nonsensical as "Aloha Snackbar."
With blood still fresh on the pavement in Manhattan after Monday's outbreak of Allahu Akbar-itis that took at least eight innocent lives, Palestinian-American propagandist and Hamas cheerleader Linda Sarsour tweeted:
"Every believing Muslim says Allahu Akbar every day during prayers. We cannot criminalize 'God is great.'"
Rice University sociologist Dr. Craig Considine mourned: "It begins. CNN reports murderer said "Allahu Akbar." Queue the Islamophobia."
And confused former director of national intelligence James Clapper mused: 'It's hard to comprehend...what moves a human being to do that to another human being."
Instead of striking fear, "Allahu Akbar!" has unleashed collective foolishness.
"Allahu Akbar!" screamed Amor Ftouhi just five months ago at Bishop Airport in Flint, Michigan, before stabbing a police officer in the neck.
"Allahu Akbar!" Ftouhi chanted repeatedly in multiple court hearings throughout the summer.
"Motive still unknown," the experts declared.
"Allahu Akbar!" fulminated militant Muslim black separatist Kori Ali Muhammad in April after shooting and killing three white people in downtown Fresno, California.
"It's too early to say" whether the motive was "terrorism," law enforcement officials opined. The Associated Press whitewashed Muhammad's declaration, helpfully obscuring his exact exclamation to the Islam-free translation, "God is Great."
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Terror suspect's NJ mosque has been under NYPD surveillance: Report
The New Jersey mosque that New York City terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov reportedly attended has been under surveillance by the New York Police Department since 2005, according to a published report.
The Omar Mosque in Paterson, N.J., located near Saipov's home, is among multiple Muslim houses of worship in the New York metro area being studied by the NYPD as possible locations for "budding terrorist conspiracies," NorthJersey.com reported.
An NYPD report from 2006 doesn't link any criminal activity to the mosque, but says it "is believed to have been the subject of federal investigations."
In the wake of Tuesday's deadly truck attack in Lower Manhattan, police and the FBI swarmed areas in New Jersey to which Saipov was believed to have ties. They included the mosque, an apartment building, and other residences and storefronts.
Saipov reportedly moved to New Jersey from Tampa, Fla., to do just that. A Florida friend, Kobiljon Matkarov, told Fox News that the man he knew was "very friendly" and "very nice."
But locals in New Jersey described Saipov in different terms.
Slavo Petrov, a 64-year-old neighbor of Saipov, said he saw the man in the area with his wife and two children, and noticed him going to the local mosque.
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Trump stiffening extreme vetting of foreigners after New York truck attack
President Trump ordered Tuesday increased extreme vetting of foreign visors to the U.S. in response to the deadly terror attack in New York City.
"I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not for this!" Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter.
Mr. Trump did not elaborate on what exactly he had ordered done. Several of his earlier efforts to tighten limits on immigrants and refugees, especially from majority-Muslim nations, have been blocked by U.S. courts.
The order came after a man drove a rented pickup truck into pedestrians and bicyclists in lower Manhattan, killing at least eight people, according to police.
Police apprehended the suspect, a 29-year-old male whom was identified as Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek national who entered the U.S. in 2010.
Mr. Trump said the administration's thoughts and prayers were with the victims of the terrorist attack.
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'Hero' NYPD cop who shot terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov identified
A young NYPD officer is being hailed as a hero after shooting a suspected terrorist in New York City.
Officer Ryan Nash, 28, shot suspect Sayfullo Saipov in the stomach moments after he allegedly rammed a rented pickup truck into a crowd in Lower Manhattan, the New York Daily News reported.
The attack left at least eight people dead and several others injured in what Mayor Bill de Blasio called a "cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians
Nash, a five-year veteran of the police force, was outside the nearby Stuyvesant High School reporting to an unfounded call of a nonviolent, emotionally disturbed person before the deadly rampage began, The News reported.
When chaos broke out, Nash rushed to the bloody scene where he successfully subdued the suspect
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Josh Groban says dog pulled him from Manhattan attack location moments earlier: 'I'm shaking'
By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 31, 2017
One of the world's most famous singers says his dog may have inadvertently saved his life moments before a 29-year-old man used a truck to mow down victims in lower Manhattan.
Josh Groban was less than one block away from location of a terror attack in New York City on Tuesday that killed at least eight people. The suspect, Sayfullo Saipov of Tampa, Florida, reportedly yelled "Allahu akbar" prior to being shot by police and taken into custody.
"Oh my god I just heard gun shots and ran with my dog. Downtown. F-," Mr. Groban began a series of tweets. "I hope everyone's OK. Was half a block from me, didn't see it but heard 8-10 quick rounds fired off. Be safe with your kids out there. I'm shaking. That's the corner I was supposed to have my coffee but my dog pulled me into the park half a block away 10 min before shooting."
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