Trump, Tweets and the Diversity Lottery Programme.

Trump tweets aren't all that diverse, so is the American Diversity Visa Lottery Program which the president has always expressed his abhorrence for, the latest in a tweet as shallow as it was specious. Tweets aren't such good platforms for expressing opinions, its narrowness forces a stand into the very restricting yes or no mode. Subtlety, which must necessarily incorporate a train of nuances, entails the use of many words, a cache that is often unable to fit into the limited chest a tweet box provides. It is the reason the president's tweets often project controversy and little substance.
A tweet would make it easy for him to explain the Diversity Program is bad because a Sudanese who came into the US through it is being accused by the Justice Department of setting up decoy funds that were later channeled to terrorists in places as diverse as Libya and Chechnya. It is a rare abuse. There are thousands, millions of folks who came in through the system that are making very legitimate living and are boosting the echelons of the economy especially at the lower to middle levels. Human beings are not apples. A few bad ones do not cause the barrel to be emptied. American expatiates in the oil-rich Delta cities of Nigeria are the prime patrons of sex and prostitution rings in Warri and Port-Harcout but nobody is calling for the termination of American oilmen contracts. The US health system would be hard-pressed without the thousands of its Nigerian and Indian doctors, many who came in through the Diversity Program.
Yet the program isn't such a good immigration idea. The control is very poor, as is every scheme determined by lottery, and was always going to let in too many rotten apples: criminals, terrorists, prostitutes,fraudsters, guys who were going to make  the police, FBI and a host of sister security agencies see red.  But nobody has even talked about the damage it did  to developing countries where most of the the immigrants came from. It generated a horrid frenzy among everyone, young and old. Many a grandmother slept for days in the homes of prophets and herbalists for spiritual intervention that would see their wards win the lottery. Millions of naira were lost in the desperation to fake mediums. The program coincided with a very steep dive in education. Since it did not discriminate between  laborers and doctors, many youths did not bother to look beyond high school education that was the basic requirement for the program. The educational system is yet to recover from the damage.
Internet fraud got a very big boost from the program. Many a youth spent days in cybercafes perfecting the art of submitting multiple entries, of  placing photographs of fake wives, children and foreign acquaintances. Those who did not win instantly channeled the acquired skills into 'yahoo, yahoo' business, a moniker for internet scamming.
A better immigration scheme can always replace this. Trump should forget dreaming about Norway. By all living indices, Norway is a far better country than the US. Few, very few folks there are going to be interested even if Trump offers them a million dollars to move. He could target university graduates in developing countries, many of whom are very, very good, and are all too happy to become dishwashers in the US and Canada. Many Nigerian professors are already cab drivers in those climes. Food comes first. Young graduates have bright prospects for economic and social upgrade and can always come back to their countries to become catalysts for change and development using the skills and experiences they have acquired.