Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem said the Brown University suspected shooter came into the country using the now paused DV1 program. The program offers visas to appliants from little represented countries.

Suspending the lottery programme is the latest step by President Donald Trump to limit immigration. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Notably, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, 48, who is suspected in the Brown University and MIT shootings, had come to the United States through the Green Card Lottery Program.

The diversity visa program makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year.

Donald Trump suspends green card lottery after Brown University and MIT shooting suspect's entry, citing security concerns and program review.

President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery programme on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.

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.

President Donald Trump has suspended the green card lottery program that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.