Gates of Vienna: The Diversity Lottery

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Diversity Lottery

As you probably remember, the Diversity Visa Lottery is an annual allocation of permanent residency visas to certain countries in an attempt to Make America Look Like the World:

The diversity lottery was conducted under the terms of section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

In other words, nobody from the usual suspects will be allowed in under this program. But who are the usual suspects? Mexico and Canada, obviously; but there are a number of others:

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2009: Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.

As you can see, the Third World is not the only beneficiary of this program: Danes, Swedes, Germans, Italians, and Latvians are entitled to register. No Brits, however! We had enough of them after George III. But we’ll take people from Ulster; that’s different.

I’ll paste the entire breakdown by nationality below the jump. It’s interesting to note who didn’t register — nobody from Vatican City, San Marino, Brunei, or the Solomon Islands signed up. But there has been heavy participation by Ukraine, Turkey, Bangladesh, Egypt, Cameroon, and Albania.

And forty-eight Danes! I hope somebody at State puts a thumb on the scales for the Vikings…

The full results:
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Africa

Algeria	2,205	Libya	117
Angola	38	Madagascar	46
Benin	390	Malawi	29
Botswana	22	Mali	124
Burkina Faso	129	Mauritania	39
Burundi	86	Mauritius	62
Cameroon	3,659	Morocco	3,280
Cape Verde	9	Mozambique	22
Central African Rep.	21	Namibia	20
Chad	27	Niger	64
Comoros	6	Nigeria	6,041
Congo	1,582	Rwanda	111
Congo, Democratic Republic Of The	65	Sao Tome and Principe	1
Cote D’Ivoire	642	Senegal	1,160
Djibouti	26	Seychelles	8
Egypt	4,831	Sierra Leone	2,230
Equatorial Guinea	10	Somalia	256
Eritrea	829	South Africa	909
Ethiopia	5,200	Sudan	1,143
Gabon	35	Swaziland	6
Gambia, The	168	Tanzania	298
Ghana	7,322	Togo	956
Guinea	469	Tunisia	155
Guinea-Bissau	9	Uganda	433
Kenya	4,307	Zambia	156
Lesotho	4	Zimbabwe	242
Liberia	3,440

Asia

Afghanistan	117	Malaysia	85
Bahrain	18	Maldives	4
Bangladesh	6,023	Mongolia	191
Bhutan	4	Nepal	1,891
Brunei	0	North Korea	2
Burma	556	Oman	10
Cambodia	287	Qatar	10
Hong Kong Special Admin. Region	75	Saudi Arabia	128
Indonesia	230	Singapore	38
Iran	1,689	Sri Lanka	792
Iraq	154	Syria	108
Israel	194	Taiwan	431
Japan	320	Thailand	110
Jordan	161	Timor-Leste	1
Kuwait	43	United Arab Emirates	33
Laos	2	Yemen	102
Lebanon	193

Europe

Albania	2,894	Liechtenstein	1
Andorra	0	Lithuania	273
Armenia	1,285	Luxembourg	1
Austria	145	Macau	12
Azerbaijan	345	Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Rep. Of	322
Belarus	1,240	Malta	9
Belgium	82	Martinique	4
Bosnia & Herzegovina	158	Moldova	542
Bulgaria	1,154	Monaco	0
Croatia	75	Montenegro	20
Cyprus	42	Netherlands	226
Czech Republic	140	Netherlands Aruba	9
Denmark	48	Netherlands Antilles	34
Estonia	58	Northern Ireland	35
Finland	72	Norway	54
France	738	Portugal	92
French Guiana	11	Reunion	0
French Polynesia	2	Romania	757
French Southern and Antarctic Lands	1	San Marino	0
Georgia	661	Serbia	656
Germany	1,973	Slovakia	169
Greece	63	Slovenia	21
Greenland	1	Spain	172
Guadeloupe	0	Sweden	226
Hungary	271	Switzerland	230
Iceland	25	Tajikistan	168
Ireland	132	Turkey	2,331
Italy	433	Turkmenistan	111
Kazakhstan	336	Ukraine	5,502
Kyrgyzstan	169	Uzbekistan	3,284
Latvia	100	Vatican City	0

North America

Bahamas, The

Pacific

Australia	590	Niue	11
Christmas Islands	0	Palau	0
Cook Islands	0	Papua New Guinea	15
Fiji	760	Samoa	20
Kiribati	2	Solomon Islands	0
Marshall Islands	0	Tonga	129
Micronesia, Federated States Of	2	Tuvalu	1
Nauru	1	Vanuatu	1
New Zealand	269

South America, Central America, and the Caribbean

Antigua and Barbuda	5	Honduras	77
Argentina	174	Nicaragua	58
Barbados	8	Panama	38
Belize	4	Paraguay	10
Bolivia	108	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1
Chile	50	Saint Lucia	4
Costa Rica	67	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9
Cuba	555	Suriname	5
Dominica	30	Trinidad and Tobago	141
Grenada	6	Uruguay	26
Guatemala	6	Venezuela	470
Guyana	41

Hat tip: heroyalwhyness.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hey, George III was quite some time ago! Or do we have to go around apologising for our ancestors' rulers for ever?; 7/22/2009 3:28 PM
spackle said...: Interesting that the two South American/ Caribbean countries with the most numbers are those darlings of the left. Cuba and Venezuela.

As to the entire list it is one Hell hole after the other with few exceptions. Besides most of the European countries I'll take the Aussies, New Zealanders and the Ukranians. As for the rest? Good night and good luck.; 7/22/2009 3:53 PM
Baron Bodissey said...: Yokel --

If you've hung around here for a while, you know that I'm somewhat of an Anglophile, and was even a limey myself for four years during my youth.

IOW, I was joking.

I tolerate the Brits at least as readily as I put up with the Swedes.

The Irish are another matter entirely.; 7/22/2009 5:06 PM
Avery Bullard said...: No Brits, however! We had enough of them after George III. But we’ll take people from Ulster; that’s different.

The Northern Ireland exception was supposedly a reward from the U.S. to NI following the 1998 peace agreement. Actually it was due to lobbying from Kennedy and other 'Irish' American politicians.; 7/22/2009 5:17 PM
laine said...: What is this mania for "diversity" as an end in itself? There's no empirical proof that building a Tower of Babel strengthens a nation (as in demonstrating that immigration continually improves a host nation's productivity instead of being a net drain in costs). This is just another leftist unproven assumption. Since they've been wrong about everything else, what are the odds they get this one right?

Remember, the crowd that worships diversity of appearance is the exact same crowd working hard at curtailing diversity of thought so how trustworthy are they? Leftist parties in all western countries push for immigration because immigrants tend to vote eternally for the ones who "brung 'em to the party".

Since it IS empirically proven that leftist policies impoverish nations both monetarily and spiritually (East Germany vs West Germany, North Korea vs South Korea, Soviet Union vs USA etc.) how is this a good idea?

How good are screening procedures to separate desirable citizens from backwater countries from rats deserting a sinking ship who set about recreating the same conditions that did their home country in? And how ethical is it to poach the best and brightest if that's what we're doing from countries who are worse off?

Why not try something else for a couple of decades and compare overall global benefits? Why doesn't everyone except refugees in actual danger stay put and improve their home countries with the option of inviting emissaries from nations who are doing better to help them turn things around? Swamping successful countries with the unsuccessful is not going to work out well for anyone except the handful by world standards of lucky immigrants. They can be a net burden on the host countries and the majorities left in hellholes who depend on subsidies from successful countries for life itself in many cases end up suffering more.

Countries dragged down to mediocrity by socialism don't have the wherewithal or even motivation to help Africa for example.

The Leftist version of equality (not just equality before the law and equality of opportunity but enforced sharing) ALWAYS ends up with an equal sharing of a lowered standard of living. Their loser formula will work no differently on a city, state, national and world scale. Socialism has the illusion of "working" only when a) there's a homogeneous society like Sweden used to be with shared high work ethic or b) there's someone to subsidize the socialists. For example, Quebec true to its French nature is the most socialist province in Canada but does not live within its means. Instead, billions are siphoned from the more productive provinces and handed to Quebec in a completely unethical federal "equalization" program. California is on the verge of bankruptcy because it chose to let all its government workers live high off the hog. Who thinks only Californians are going to pay for their unsustainable policies? Was it the unions and feckless management who paid for their greed bankrupting GM?

Leftist policies do not make money. They merely redistribute money. Without access to and power over moneymakers, they crash economies reducing the vast majority to a much lower standard of living. This still works for leftist leaders who always erect palaces for themselves or at least dachas while steadily repressing the newly created serfs. There's always enough money for the elite few as long as the uppity middle classes are reduced to being peasants again.; 7/22/2009 5:44 PM
Sean O'Brian said...: spackle,

Besides most of the European countries I'll take the Aussies, New Zealanders and the Ukranians.

But now that all those countries are 'diversified' you wouldn't necessarily be getting people of European or Australian stock. I read an anecdotal comment on a blog that said that African/Asian Muslim immigrants were coming to the US from Europe.; 7/22/2009 7:20 PM
Rocha said...: It's a shame Brazil is not included... i can think of whole brazilian regions that could be depopulated in favor of USA. We could begin with Guaranhuns...

Well to say the truth if you acaricans can't reverse the 1965 immigration laws that's the picture of NY in 2042.

http://frankroman.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/african-slum1.jpg

Good luck, and be sure that despite being atheist i do pray every night for the west, just in case there's anything out there.; 7/22/2009 8:02 PM
Cyrus said...: That's Detroit isn't it? ;); 7/22/2009 9:21 PM
Anonymous said...: A who's who of jihad central, and I'm surely missing some:

Algeria
Egypt
Morocco
Nigeria
Somalia
Sudan (!!!)
Iran
Saudi Arabia (9/11 anybody?)
Yemen

I'd bet that very few of these residencies will be given to refugee Christians, Jews, and pagans fleeing from Muslim persecution. This is potentially thousands of jihadists every year entering the US. Given the fact that we don't control the identity departments of these governments, generating fake IDs with clean backgrounds for jihadist insertion into the US would be trivial for these governments to accomplish.; 7/23/2009 1:59 AM

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The Diversity Lottery

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