Trump suspends green card lottery programme that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into U.S.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem successful  Washington. File

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President Donald Trump suspended the greenish paper lottery programme connected Thursday (December 18, 2025)that allowed the fishy successful the Brown University and MIT shootings to travel to the United States.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said successful a station connected the societal level X that astatine Mr. Trump's absorption she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to intermission the programme.

The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States done the diverseness lottery migrant visa programme (DV1) successful 2017 and was granted a greenish card. This heinous idiosyncratic should ne'er person been allowed successful our country. 

In 2017, President Trump…

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) December 19, 2025

“This heinous idiosyncratic should ne'er person been allowed successful our country,” she said.

The diverseness visa programme makes up to 50,000 greenish cards disposable each twelvemonth by lottery to radical from countries that are small represented successful the United States, galore of them successful Africa.

Nearly 20 cardinal radical applied for the 2025 visa lottery, with much than 131,000 selected erstwhile including spouses with the winners. After winning, they indispensable acquisition vetting to triumph admittance to the United States. Portuguese citizens won lone 38 slots.

Published - December 19, 2025 11:05 americium IST

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