WASHINGTON: The Trump administration announced on Thursday (Dec 18) it will suspend a green card lottery that allowed a man believed to be behind both a mass shooting at Brown University and the

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 applicants from less-represented countries.

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 […]

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.