Why Ending Nigeria’s Visa Ban Serves U.S. Interests—Part 2
January 31, 2026
2:42 am
Selection isn’t personal. It’s procedural—and procedures can be engineered.
Strategy over Sentiment: How Selection Really Works (and How to Beat It)
A visa freeze feels like a verdict because it lands like one: suddenly, silently, and without the courtesy of nuance. But freezes are rarely moral judgments. They are system controls—pressure valves pulled when governments detect rising risk, falling compliance, or political heat they can’t absorb in real time.
When the public noise dies down, the machine keeps running on the same logic it always has: risk in, value out. Read that as cynicism and …
