US EditionTrump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US
The Trump administration paused the Diversity Immigrant Visa program after the Brown University shooting suspect, admitted via the lottery in 2017, was linked to multiple killings.
- 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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Trump suspends green card lottery program that let shooting suspect into US
President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday, which 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,” …
Trump administration moves to pause diversity visa program after Brown, MIT shootings • SC Daily Gazette
Brown University President Christina Paxson speaks to reporters gathered at the Providence Public Safety Complex on Dec. 16, 2025. Gov. Dan McKee, far left, and Providence Mayor Brett Smiley are also pictured. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said late Thursday she was suspending applications for a diversity visa program because the man suspected of killing two Brown University …
The Trump administration is stopping the U.S. Green Visa Lottery program, which, he said, was used by the suspect in the shooting and murder of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Brown University.The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, said in a post in X that he is asking the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service to pause the lottery, officially known as the Diversity Visa Program for Immigrants. Autho…
The diversity visa program offers up to 50,000 green cards each year through a draw to people from under-represented countries in the United States, many of them in Africa.
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