@PabloReports@latinorebels Pablo hermano, please don’t forget about the DV winners from DV2020 and DV2021 subject to Trump’s travel bans who lost their chance then won lawsuits but the Goverment is still fighting us with appeals, we need to recapture those unused DV green cards, it’s our only hope 🙏
Putting it out there into the universe for the benefit of press aides in Congress & the White House —
Today I begin asking your bosses about the diversity visa program winners from 2017-20 who are still in limbo due to Trump's Muslim ban.
Follow my reporting in @latinorebels!
NEW I talked to applicants of the visa lottery, incl those fleeing Ukraine, who are fighting the Biden admin in court for green cards
It's one example of the disconnect b/w Biden's words at the lectern and the gov’s litigation on immig in the courtroom.
https://t.co/NTduqQmegk
To our Gomez class members, we will be sending an email update to you on this news and we will keep fighting with you to get these visas issued as they should have already been. /end
The diversity visa program is designed to ensure greater diversity of nationalities in our legal immigration system and over time more diversity visas have gone to Africa than any other region. Another missed opportunity for Biden to do the right thing for black immigrants. /5
So, we had to win in court, again, against President Biden to try to get these visas issued. We did. And now, Biden is fighting that by appealing the decision to the DC Circuit. For the love. /4
But nonetheless the Biden admin kept fighting against issuing these 9,095 visas, which is not even the full amount of visas lost in that year of the diversity visa program. A real headscratcher 🤯from someone who claims to value diversity in our immigration system. /3
As a reminder, we brought this suit to challenge a Trump immigration ban that blocked diversity visas from being issued. We won, the Trump Dept. of State slow walked issuing visas so the court ordered 9,095 reserved. Biden took office, he eventually repealed this ban. /2
Falling in the category of 🤦♀️. The Biden administration has appealed our #DV2020 win in the Gomez case. If Biden valued diversity in our immigration system, his admin would not have appealed this modest win that orders 9,095 diversity visas to be issued. /1
Cheers that Infrastructure bill passed !😊
@gsiskind Has DV been added to #BuildBackBetterAct regarding the recapturing of unused visas? When will it get passed?