US EditionTrump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US
- On Thursday, President Donald Trump suspended the Diversity Immigrant Visa program after officials said the Brown University and MIT shootings suspect entered the U.S. through the lottery.
- The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program randomly awards up to 50,000–55,000 visas annually and nearly 20 million applicants entered the 2025 visa lottery, with over 131,000 selected including spouses.
- Authorities identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a Portuguese national and former Brown University student; the Brown attack killed two students, wounded nine, and the suspect was found dead by suicide in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire late Thursday.
- The administration is also moving to expand detention capacity with two dozen mega centers and propose a $100,000 H-1B application fee as part of immigration policies tightening.
- Created by Congress under the Immigration Act of 1990, the program ensures winners undergo vetting procedures, and Portuguese citizens won only 38 slots in recent draws.
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After the fatal shots at Brown University and at MIT, US President Donald Trump draws the consequences: he suspends the green card lottery.
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Kemi Filani NewsTrump suspends US green card lottery
President Donald Trump has suspended the green card lottery, that allowed Claudio Neves Valente come into US. This decision was confirmed by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. Noem noted that it was at Trump’s direction she is giving the directive for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program. Valente, who is originally from Portugal, is believed to be responsible for shootings in Brown University and…
The US green card lottery program has been suspended by presidential order after it was revealed on Thursday that the suspect in the Rhode Island university shooting may have entered the United States through this program, the AP reported. Portuguese citizen Claudio Neves Valente killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University in Rhode Island on Saturday afternoon. Two days later, he is suspected of shooting an MIT professor and …
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