Blames 'chain migration' for NYC subway bombing, using attack to push immigration overhaul

A day after a failed pipe-bomb attack in a Manhattan subway corridor by a green-card holder who had immigrated via family-sponsorship ('chain migration') and an earlier visa-lottery entrant, Trump issued a statement declaring 'Today's terror suspect entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which is incompatible with national security' and called for ending both chain migration and the diversity visa lottery. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed Trump's proposed policies 'could have prevented this,' an unverifiable assertion given the suspect's radicalization occurred well after entry. The statement leveraged a single attack by one individual to press for sweeping restrictions on lawful family-based immigration programs.

"Today's terror suspect entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which is incompatible with national security." Quote verified against source