Hot News Second 'green card lottery'

29-year-old worker from Togo Technology thought that his dream came true when he learned in May that he was in a lottery.
He left his job in India, expecting soon to enjoy the jackpot: a new life in the United States. But 12 days after his name popped up among the lucky winners of the State Department is widely known as a "green card lottery", Sedem Cocu Agbobli saw his dream crushed. The State Department found a problem with the computer drawing and threw out the results.
Now, Agbobli and thousands of other people who thought they were the victors hope lightning will strike twice on Friday, when federal officials in Washington to announce the results of a new blueprint for a program that attracts millions of applicants across the globe, and each year produces about 50,000 immigrants to the legal route for permanent residence in the United States.
Potential winners filed a class action requesting a federal court to restore their power of choice and the new image. But on Thursday afternoon U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson denies ban and dismissed the case.
Jackson sided with the State Department in its search, which in May did not choose the lottery applicants' strictly random, "as required by law. An error in computer coding has caused much of the original winners, who will be selected from among those who filed during the first two days of the 30-day application period, depriving other applicants of equal shot.
The court's decision dashed hopes of 22,000 people worldwide, many of whom have spent sleepless nights, hoping that the original results would hold. In accordance with the requirements of that choice will be random, they were returned to the pool this year, 15 million applicants.
"This is a big blow to my plans," said Agbobli, currently unemployed and back to Togo. "I do not know how I'll survive."
Confusion over the drawing this year for the program, lottery Diversity Visa, comes as some lawmakers question whether, should be continued. Began in 1995 with the support of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), a lottery, it is unknown to many Americans, but stood as a symbol of hope for millions looking to change their lives. But it was great to get involved in debates over immigration, with critics say it is full of security risks and brings no benefits to the United States.
On Friday, the House Judiciary Committee will discuss a bill to do away with the lottery.
"If you're a terrorist organization, and you can get a few hundred people to apply for this from several countries ... The odds you get one or two of them picked up," Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), who introduced the bill, said in an interview.
Earlier version of the bill passed the House twice in recent years, but was shot down in the Senate, in particular, Goodlatte said, because of the support Kennedy, who died in 2009. But with high unemployment rates in the U.S., he said, "it is difficult to justify the attraction of additional 50,000 that need work, and will have to compete with the 14 million Americans for jobs."