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The shocking Brown University shooting that claimed innocent lives forced a long-overdue national reassessment of who we let into this country, and the administration did the right thing by pausing the Diversity Visa green-card lottery while investigators and security officials sort out what went wrong. This is not fearmongering — it is common-sense leadership putting American lives ahead of abstract open-borders experiments.
Authorities tied the suspect’s path to the U.S. to the diversity visa program, and the horrific incident that also touched an MIT professor exposed a flaw in policy: no system is perfect, and when the unthinkable happens we must respond swiftly. Americans expect their government to act when public safety is at stake; that’s precisely what occurred when the pause was announced.
State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott made the sober point on Fox that visas are evaluated on a case-by-case basis and that a visa is a privilege, not a right — language conservatives have been saying for years and that resonates with every parent worried about why classrooms and campuses should be safe. Leadership that actually says what must be said and acts accordingly is refreshing in an age when too many in Washington would reflexively defend process over people.
Yes, there will always be hand-wringing from the usual suspects who prefer ideological purity to results, calling any pause “collective punishment.” But the alternative — shrugging and pretending that a single loophole can’t lead to tragedy — is unacceptable. Our first duty is to protect American citizens and students; if that means pausing a program while we fix vetting and oversight, then so be it.
The diversity lottery was created with good intentions decades ago, and many winners are hardworking contributors to American life — but policy must evolve when it no longer serves its purpose without sufficient safeguards. Conservatives should not be afraid to demand reforms: tighten vetting, connect databases, and move toward a merit-based system that rewards skills and loyalty to America, not blind randomness that can be exploited.
If critics want to turn this into a culture-war spectacle, let them; hardworking Americans see through it. What we want is a secure, sensible immigration system that welcomes those who strengthen our country and keeps out those who would do us harm. Congress should act fast to rewrite an outdated law that hands out green cards like raffle prizes while exposing our communities to risk.
This is a defining moment for patriotism over permissiveness — to defend our universities, our streets, and our children we must insist that visas remain a privilege granted to people who respect our laws and values. Leaders who pause, probe, and fix problems are serving the American people; the rest can keep lecturing from the sidelines while voters remember who put safety first.
