Trump plans to terminate Green Card Lotto after NYC attack

President Donald Trump announced today that he will ask Congress to end the immigration lottery program.

The US President blamed the Green Card Lotto for allowing the radicalised Uzbekistan man into the country who orchestrated last night's vehicle attack in New York City. 

The attack killed eight people and injured many more. 

'I am today starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery programme.'

'I’m going to ask Congress to immediately initiate work to get rid of this programme.'

'We will have a merit based programme,' the POTUS said. 

'We have to get much tougher and we have to get much smarter.'

'And we have to get much less politically correct. We’re so politically correct that we’re afraid to do anything.'

The programme is a popular method for Irish workers to gain access to the country. 

According to RTE, the lottery gives around 50,000 applicants from around the world entry to the USA each year. 

Tens of millions of people apply for the scheme anually.