{"id":"f-e550251d2f-903d6550-9b62-593e-b77f-890d6c81fbd8","title":"Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US","description":"The diversity visa programme makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year by lottery to people from countries that are little represented in the United States, many of them in Africa. The lottery was created by Congress, and the move is almost certain to invite legal challenges.","timestamp":1766129726,"category":"international","headline":"Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US","modifiedHeadline":"Trump Halts Green Card Lottery After Shootings","subCategories":["scid_f9e06305"],"region":"IN","bundleMetaData":{"bundleId":"1bfabe6b-695a-4fbe-92e1-db426e6ba232","bundleTitle":"Tracking Trump","cardData":null},"iabCategoryId":"386","fcSummary":"Trump administration suspended the green card lottery after a Portuguese national, who entered the U.S. through the program, was suspected in shootings at Brown University and MIT. The move, directing USCIS to pause the program, faces likely legal challenges.","summary":"Trump halts diversity visa lottery after shootings suspect entered US via program. Move, impacting thousands, faces legal battles.","ctaUrl":"https://trends.glance.com/newz/World_News/IN/en/cnbc-tv18/f-e550251d2f-903d6550-9b62-593e-b77f-890d6c81fbd8","sourceUrl":"https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/trump-suspends-green-card-lottery-program-that-let-brown-university-mit-shootings-suspect-into-us-19796455.htm","bannerImage":"https://g-mob.glance-cdn.com/public/fc/image/eFohcpUrdFd0.webp","content":"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.\n\n
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\n 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.\n
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\n “This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente.\n
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\n 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.\n\n
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\n Neves Valente obtained legal permanent residence status in 2017, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley said.\n
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\n The diversity visa programme makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year by lottery to people from countries that are little represented in the United States, many of them in Africa. The lottery was created by Congress, and the move is almost certain to invite legal challenges.\n
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\n Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 visa lottery, with more than 131,000 selected when including spouses with the winners. After winning, they must undergo vetting to win admission to the United States. Portuguese citizens won only 38 slots.\n\n
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\n Lottery winners are invited to apply for a green card. They are interviewed at consulates and subject to the same requirements and vetting as other green-card applicants.\n
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\n Trump has long opposed the diversity visa lottery. Noem’s announcement is the latest example of using tragedy to advance immigration policy goals. After an Afghan man was identified as the gunman in a fatal attack on National Guard members in November, Trump’s administration imposed sweeping rules against immigration from Afghanistan and other countries.\n\n
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\n While pursuing mass deportation, Trump has sought to limit or eliminate avenues to legal immigration. He has not been deterred if they are enshrined in law, like the diversity visa lottery or the Constitution, as with a right to citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil. The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear his challenge to birthright citizenship.","readDurationInMinutes":"4","author":{"name":"CNBC TV18","logo":"https://glance-mob.glance-cdn.com/public/bubble/jpeg/ecc3d19b-fc52-4a39-881c-5b0936ae723b.jpeg"},"ism":false,"analyticsResponses":[{"measurementId":"383191425","type":"COMSCORE"}],"pointerSummary":["Trump suspends green card lottery after Brown/MIT shooting suspect entered via program.","Suspect, Neves Valente, killed 2 students, 1 professor; obtained green card in 2017.","Lottery awards 50,000 visas; Trump opposed it, cites tragedy to advance policy goals."],"tags":["Trump","GreenCardLottery","DiversityVisaProgram","Immigration","KristiNoem","USCIS","ClaudioNevesValente","BrownUniversity","MIT","Shootings","LegalChallenges","Congress","Africa","LeahBFoley","Portugal","ImmigrationPolicy","SupremeCourt","BirthrightCitizenship"],"consent":true,"redirectionEnabled":false}

Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US

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