Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US
President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday. suspicious Brown University and MIT attacks come to the USA.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on social platform
“This disgusting individual should never have been allowed to enter our country,” he said about the suspected Portuguese national, Claudio Neves Valente.
It is stated that 48-year-old Neves Valente is a suspect in the shootings that killed two students and injured nine students at Brown University and the murder of an MIT professor. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday evening, authorities said.
According to a Providence police detective’s statement, Neves Valente had been studying at Brown on a student visa since 2000. He was granted a diversity immigrant visa in 2017 and was granted legal permanent resident status months later, according to the affidavit. It was not immediately clear where he was between the time he took a leave of absence from school in 2001 and the time he received a visa in 2017.
The diversity visa program awards up to 50,000 green cards through the lottery each year to people from countries underrepresented in the United States, mostly in Africa. The lottery was created by Congress, and the move is almost certain to lead to legal challenges.
Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 visa lottery and more than 131,000 people were selected, including spouses of winners. After winning, they must pass review to be admitted to the United States. Portuguese nationals won only 38 slots.
Lottery winners are invited to apply for a green card. They are interviewed at consulates and subject to the same conditions and scrutiny as other green card applicants.
Trump has long opposed the diversity visa lottery. Noem’s announcement is the latest example of using tragedy to advance immigration policy goals. After it was determined that the gunman in a deadly attack on National Guard members in November was an Afghan man, the Trump administration introduced sweeping rules against immigration from Afghanistan and other regions.
In his push for mass deportation, Trump has sought to limit or eliminate legal avenues of immigration. He wasn’t deterred by the diversity visa lottery or the Constitution’s inclusion in laws such as the right to citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil. The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear his appeal on birthright citizenship.
