US EditionTrump Administration Targets Diversity Visa Program Amid Controversy
The Diversity Visa lottery program that allows up to 55,000 immigrants annually is paused after a DV1 visa holder committed deadly attacks, officials said.
- On Dec. 13, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the Diversity Visa lottery program would be paused immediately after a Brown University shooting that killed two and injured nine.
- Law enforcement identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, as the Brown University shooter and killer of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro; Valente entered the U.S. through the DV1 lottery in 2017 and was granted a green card.
- The DV1 lottery, which can admit 55,000 people a year, allows immigrants from low-admission countries and drew scrutiny when President Donald Trump sought to end it after an attack killing eight.
- At President Donald Trump's direction, USCIS paused the DV1 program after a shooter entered through it, and Trump said, `This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country.`
- The killings included a Dec. 16 murder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro in Brookline, and the suspected shooter died by suicide and was found in New Hampshire on Dec. 18.
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The administration of United States President Donald Trump is planning to tighten visas aimed at increasing immigrant diversity after the suspect in the Brown University shooting was linked to the program.
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…
Trump Administration Targets Diversity Visa Program Amid Controversy
Donald Trump's administration is imposing tighter regulations on the Diversity Visa Program following a criminal incident linked to a visa recipient. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced a temporary halt to the program. Critics argue the move targets immigration from specific countries under the guise of national security concerns.
In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, US Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem said in a post.
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