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The diversity visa lottery — better known as the green card lottery — lets around 50,000 people every year into the US. But after President Trump learned that the suspect in a truck attack in New York that killed eight people came into the country through this scheme, he called for it to end. Abdi Nor Iftin, a green card lottery winner, explains what the programme has meant to him.

(Image: Abdi Nor Iftin was living as a Somali refugee in Kenya, when he won his ticket, and now he lives in Portland, Maine. Credit: PRI’s the World)