Summary
President Donald Trump has put a hold on the green card lottery program. This program allowed Claudio Neves Valente, a suspect in recent shootings at Brown University and MIT, to enter the United States. The suspect, who was a Portuguese national, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Key Facts
- President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program.
- The program allowed Claudio Neves Valente to come to the U.S.
- Neves Valente was a suspect in shootings at Brown University and MIT.
- The shootings resulted in the deaths of two students and the wounding of nine others at Brown University.
- An MIT professor was also killed in the same set of incidents.
- Neves Valente, aged 48, died from a self-inflicted gunshot.
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the suspension.
