Trump Suspends Green Card Lottery Program after Brown and MIT Shootings
President Donald Trump has ordered the suspension of the U.S. green card lottery program following revelations that the suspect behind the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT professor entered the country through the scheme.
In a post on X, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the suspect, identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, entered the United States in 2017 under the diversity visa program. She said Trump had directed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to immediately pause the program.
Neves Valente fatally shot two students at Brown University and wounded nine others before later killing MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, a former classmate from Portugal. Authorities said the suspect was found dead on Thursday from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
The diversity visa program issues up to 50,000 green cards annually through a lottery system for applicants from countries with low immigration rates to the United States. Trump has long criticized the program and previously sought to end it during his first term.
Federal authorities said investigations into the shootings are continuing, despite confirmation that there are no other suspects.
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