Just the whole notion of there even being such a thing as a "diversity visa" infuriates me. So admission to our country needn't have anything to do with skills and abilities you bring, or even just a genuine desire to embrace the American experiment, but rather your place of origin tickled the fancy of some tedious, overwrought bureaucrats, and they considered that reason enough in itself to bring you here.
Why do we tolerate this? Who decided that "diversity" was in and of itself a compelling foundation for immigration policy? Why is it any effort to change it would be met with outrage from the bureaucracy, with the assumption that "diversity" was somehow a criterion etched in the tablets brought down the mountain by Moses?
This is symptomatic of a decadent, self-indulgent civilization; the idea that it can import people based on fleeting fancy, fashionable ethnic backgrounds, and pay no regard to their tangible benefits to the civilization.
Anytime this subject comes up, I am reminded of a story I am personally familiar with. I have a friend from Germany, a medical doctor, who speaks perfect English and even lived in the US for several years as a kid. He has been denied a permanent visa on more than one occasion. Yet, we literally import thousands from Iran just because they're from Iran?