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Are not eligible because too many people from pakistan and brazil and vietnam and the rest have received visas in the last five years. now to the president's claim that people coming in through the visa lottery program are the worst of the worst, it's simply not true. for 2017, 19,344,588 people applied for visa through the diversity program from all over the world. the represented by the 195 figures. and of this group, the state department randomly selected one, one of the 195, the raw number here, 89,910, that's fewer than one half of one percent of the applicants. and in the real vetting st...

Into a lottery and the united states takes those people. >> yeah, that's not true either. the united states does not take all of the people chosen through random selection. 49,067 were granted visas in 2017. federal law caps visas through the program at 50,000 a year. 19,344,588 applicants is where we started. 89,910 initially selected. so that means that the state department granted visas to a little more than .25% of the applicants, 49,067. so when the president says this the next time -- >> giving you p em thpeople thay don't want and then we take them out of the lottery and where they do i...