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Where 51-year-old man opened fire at enforcement officers throughout the city and the harrisburg district attorney spoke out about the attack on friday. >> this individual showed. >> they are calling this a terror attack saying he was a naturalized u.s. citizen who came to the country on a family-based immigrant visa. they released this statement yesterday saying both chain migration and the diversity program, lottery program had been exploited by terrorists to attack our country and the program...

And no skills at all. and if its a lottery, anybody on the planet who is from a qualifying country can take advantage of this. the state department in 2003, the state department inspector general office observed that this low eligibility criteria can lead to exploitation by terrorists. they warned about this in 2003. the gae echoed that same warning. warning that terrorists could take advantage of the diversity program. also the program is racked with fraud. in 2003, the state department ig 15 y...

Almost 30,000 came from those terror sponsoring countries. so we have to have more rigorous extreme vetting done. theres no extreme vetting. when you use the lottery, its diversity based on national origin. its inevitably skewed to those that dont like our ideas because the countries that are diversity based are those that are tear irsponsoring countries often because the numbers are lower. >> neil: you know when the latest terrorist came in in 2010, he was fined. there was nothing to telegraph ...

Its not a lottery. my parents waited for years escaping political refugees from syria in the 60s. theres so many people that deserve to come that are escaping tyranny. if we have it as a lottery, its a no-brainer that well have rush autocrats and jihadists. >> neil: and they go on to same the lottery scares people. its the same vetting process. just that the numbers allowed in are based on just that. but everyone is vetted the same way. is that true? >> remember, the countries part of the lotter...

The diversity program allows other countries that wouldnt be allowed into our country, different points of view. rob: syria, former soviet states that have problems with terrorism. >> these are homegrown. >> it should not be at the cost of affecting american lives. it is two different viewpoints. >> the hunt for a serial killer terrorizing a tampa community, shot and killed in the same neighborhood as three other people weeks ago. checking on residence and searching for clues, former homicide de...

Its time to reform if not end the diversity visa program. i mean, i think its roughly 5% of the 1 million visas that we issue. we would be best to apply our strategy to visa issuance rather than leave it up to chance and to lottery. brian: all right. since 2007. we have 20739 from iran. 70232 from sudan. 812 from syria. im not saying they are not all great people. we need to know if theyre coming here, who they are. they win the lottery and bring over relatives because thats the chain pry migrat...

Isis is looking for this sort of opportunity. and, yeah, look, i dont think -- you mentioned that some of the victims of the attack were argentine nationals. nobody in the world would be considered -- concerned about argentines coming here because, first off, they dont have a deep-seated hate of america. i think thats the first requirement, david. anybody who essentially is telegraphing the fact that they are not going to be assimilated, we have the rethink. and this diversity program does not a...

Career and dealing with the trump administration. earlier this year comey testified to congress about his firing, alleging that president trump told him quote, i need loyalty. i expect loyalty. steve, rob? steve: thank you, abby. we have a fox news alert on this friday morning. president trump pledging to end the diversity visa program after it was revealed that the suspect in that new york city truck attack earlier in the week entered the united states through that program. >> diversity lottery...

In the streets. they have commercials of conservatives running minority children down on trucks when its actually jihadis doing that in western countries. they dont want to bring that up because it doesnt fit their narrative. almost like up is down and down is up. abby: great point. how did this terrorist get here and what was his path? many people learned for the first time about the diversity program. president trump is slamming that hard saying that has got to end and we are going to bring ju...

Vehicles, heather. heather: bryan llenas definitely ramped up security. the attacker here in the u.s., you heard this on diversity visa, is it time to shut the program down? here to debate cofounder lili and liberal analyst kathy, thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> kathy, i will start with you, the diversity program itself basically is a lottery system that allows people in here at random. what do you think about that? should it be shut down in light of whats happen? >...