President Trump ordered the suspension late Thursday of the visa lottery program that the suspect in the killing of two Brown University students and an MIT professor used to gain entry to the US.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a late-night statement on X. “At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.”
Portugal native Claudio Neves Valente, 48, was issued a Diversity Immigrant (DV1) Visa in 2017 and obtained a green card months later.
Neves Valente was found dead Thursday evening of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a storage facility in Salem, NH. He was the prime suspect in the Dec. 13 mass shooting that killed Brown students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and wounded nine others, as well as the Dec. 15 murder of MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro.
The suspect enrolled in a graduate physics program at Brown during the 2000-01 school year, taking a leave of absence that April and formally withdrawing from the Ivy League university in 2003.
It’s unclear where Neves Valente lived or what he was doing between 2017 and Saturday’s shooting at Brown. His last known address was in Miami, Fla.
The DV1 program, authorized by the Immigration Act of 1990, provides up to 50,000 visas annually using a formula to prioritize applicants from countries with low levels of emigration to the US over the previous five years. --->READ MORE HERE
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President Donald Trump has suspended the green card lottery program that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.
On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she was ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program.
Trump pauses green card lottery program
What they're saying: "The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country," she wrote.The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country.
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) December 19, 2025
In 2017, President Trump…
She continued: "At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program."
In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people.
Who was the Brown University gunman?
Neves Valente, 48, is suspected in the shootings at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, and the killing of an MIT professor. He was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
Neves Valente was a former student at Brown and was a Portuguese national, officials said during a news conference on Thursday evening.
He studied at Brown on a student visa beginning in 2000, according to an affidavit from a Providence police detective. In 2017, he was issued a diversity immigrant visa and months later obtained legal permanent residence status, according to the affidavit. It was not immediately clear where he was between taking a leave of absence from the school in 2001 and getting the visa in 2017. --->READ MORE HERE
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