Summary
President Donald Trump has suspended the US green card lottery program after a shooting at Brown University resulting in two deaths. The alleged shooter, Claudio Neves Valente, entered the US through this lottery system in 2017. Homeland Security has paused the visa program, believing it could prevent similar incidents.
Key Facts
- President Trump has stopped the US green card lottery after a shooting at Brown University.
- The suspect, Claudio Neves Valente, was a Portuguese man who entered the US through this lottery in 2017.
- Valente was linked to the shooting deaths of two people at Brown University and a professor at MIT.
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the visa program pause aims to prevent future harm.
- Video evidence and public tips helped police identify Valente following a widespread manhunt.
- Valente was found dead from a self-inflicted wound, with firearms and evidence linking him to the crimes.
- The diversity visa lottery allows up to 50,000 immigrants from countries with low US immigration rates.
- President Trump previously opposed the program after a 2017 attack in New York linked to another lottery entrant.
