DHS Secretary Noem announces pause on Diversity Immigrant Visa Program lottery
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on
Noem also said she had instructed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the visa program at the direction of President Donald Trump.
“Brown University shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and received a green card. This disgusting individual should never have been allowed into our country,” Noem said. to post.
“In 2017, President Trump fought to end the DV1 program after an ISIS terrorist crashed into a NYC truck, killing eight people,” he continued. “At the direction of President Trump, I am directing USCIS to immediately discontinue the DV1 program to ensure that no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.”
CLAUDIO MANUEL NEVES-VALENTE WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE SUSPECT OF SHOOTING BROWN UNIVERSITY AND MIT, HE WAS FOUND DEAD
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem attends the annual Christmas Tree Ship arrival ceremony aboard the U.S. Coast Guard ship Cutter Mackinaw at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois, on December 6, 2025. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Portuguese citizen Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who was found dead Thursday from a “self-inflicted gunshot wound,” was a suspect in both the Brown University shooting and the separate killing of an MIT professor, according to authorities.
Valente was a Brown University student more than two decades ago, according to Head of School Christina Paxson.
AUTHORITIES SAY THAT CLAUDIO MANUEL NEVES-VALENTE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BROWN’S SHOTS AND THE MURDER OF THE MIT PROFESSOR
“Neves Valente was enrolled as a graduate student at Brown from Fall 2000 to Spring 2001, but has no active involvement with Brown and has not been affiliated with Brown since 2003. He was not a current student, not an employee, and did not receive a degree from the University; he continued as a graduate student for only three terms until he was placed on leave in 2001 and formally withdrew effective July 31, 2003.” noted.
WHO IS NUNO LOUREIRO? MİT PROFESSOR WAS SHOT IN THE FLAT NEAR THE UNIVERSITY
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“Neves Valente has been accepted to Brown’s Graduate School to study in the Sc.M-PhD program in physics,” Paxson said.
