Dec. 19 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump ordered the green card lottery be suspended Friday after it was revealed the Portuguese suspect in the Brown University shooting, in which two students were killed, entered the United States via the program.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in a post on X, said the so-called diversity lottery immigrant visa scheme had been paused at the direction of Trump "to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program."
Noem said the suspect, 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, came to the United States through the DV1 program in 2017 and was granted a green card.
"This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country," she said.
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