The selection process suffered from several inequities and non-transparent features that undermined the United States’ claim to the contrary. Indeed, those claims were of a piece with the linguistic obfuscations that dominate American public debate: just as carpet bombing was called “pacification” during the Vietnam War, today illegal immigrants are called “undocumented aliens.”
整个甄选程序都受到了多项不平等状况以及不透明操作的影响，反而令美国的主张遭到了削弱。事实上那些主张只不过是一堆主导美国公共辩论的文过饰非而已：就像从前把越南战争中的地毯式轰炸称之为“和解”一样，如今那些非法移民则被称之为“未有登记在册的外国人”。