The Wall Street Journal editorial board ripped President Trump's response to Tuesday's terror attack in New York City on Wednesday, saying his criticism of the diversity visa lottery showed he was jumping to conclusions.

"The Commander in Chief in particular should wait for answers before jumping to policy conclusions or exploiting immigration fears," The Journal's editorial board wrote.

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The publication went on to say that reducing immigration or improving background checks would not have prevented the attack on Tuesday, or any of the other "Islamist-motivated" attacks since 2001.

"The Tsarnaev brothers who bombed the Boston marathon immigrated as kids from Kyrgyzstan after their parents received political asylum. The security guard Omar Mateen who shot up a night club in Orlando was American-born. So was San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, though his wife and collaborator was a legal immigrant," the editorial said.

The op-ed piece comes a day after Trump launched a Twitter attack on Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerPelosi orders Capitol flags at half-staff to honor Ginsburg Ginsburg in statement before her death said she wished not to be replaced until next president is sworn in Democrats call for NRA Foundation to be prohibited from receiving donations from federal employees MORE (D-N.Y.) for his role in an immigration program that the man suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack in New York City entered the country under.

Schumer, who played a role in the program's conception in the 1990s, hit back at Trump, accusing him of politicizing the attack.

Eight people were killed when a truck, allegedly driven by Sayfullo Saipov, who immigrated to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010, hit bikes and pedestrians in lower Manhattan.

Federal prosecutors have charged Saipov with providing material support to ISIS in addition to violence and destruction of a motor vehicle with willful disregard for human life.