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I mourn the death of ‘Green Card’

By Chris Wamalwa

Early this month, about 100,000 people from around the world were chosen from several millions to get a head-start on a US lottery program commonly known as the ‘Green Card’, in what could be the last such annual lottery, expected to be abolished under proposed new immigration reforms.

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