"President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump's direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program."
""This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country," she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente. Neves Valente, 48, is suspected in the shootings at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, and the killing of an MIT professor. He was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said."
President Donald Trump suspended the diversity visa lottery program after authorities linked the Brown University and MIT shootings to a Portuguese national who obtained a diversity immigrant visa. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program at Trump's direction. The suspect, Claudio Neves Valente, studied at Brown on a student visa beginning in 2000, received a diversity visa in 2017, and later obtained legal permanent residency. He is suspected in killings that left three dead and nine wounded and was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. The lottery allocates up to 50,000 green cards annually; nearly 20 million applied for 2025.
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