Trump Suspends Green Card Lottery After Brown, MIT Attacks (2)

December 19, 2025, 5:15 PM UTC

The Trump administration is halting the US green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that she’s asking US Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the lottery, officially known as the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.

Kristi Noem
Photographer: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg

Authorities earlier identified the shooter as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who was a former student at Brown. Noem said he was granted a green card through the lottery program in ...

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