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Article snippet: President Trump on Wednesday seized on the deadly truck attack in New York City to renew his calls for a crackdown on immigration and tighter security measures. Trump said the alleged driver in Tuesday’s attack entered the country through the diversity visa lottery and demanded that Congress act “immediately” to terminate the program, which applies to people from countries with low levels of immigration to the U.S. “Diversity lottery. Sounds nice. It's not nice. It's not good. It hasn't been good. We've been against it,” he said during a Cabinet meeting. The suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, is an Uzbek national who used the lottery system to enter the U.S. in 2010, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “We have to get much tougher. We have to get much smarter. And we have to get much less politically correct,” the president said. The comments followed Trump’s Tuesday night tweet that he had ordered DHS to “step up our already Extreme Vetting Program.” The policy demands federal agencies boost their efforts to identify would-be terrorists who try to immigrate to the U.S. The White House did not expound on what additional measures the president requested. His calls reflected some of the hallmark promises he made during the 2016 presidential campaign. Then-candidate Trump called for a complete ban on Muslims entering the U.S. before throwing his support behind “extreme vetting” measures. Trump has implemented two versions of a travel ban, both of ... Link to the full article to read more