Trump suspends US green card lottery after Brown University, MIT shootings
Trump administration targets diversity visa programme after deadly shootings were carried out by a Portuguese national
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 programme.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente.
Neves Valente, 48, is suspected in the shootings at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, and the killing of an MIT professor. He was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
Neves Valente obtained legal permanent residence status in 2017, US attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley said.