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December 19, 2025
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US pauses Green Card Lottery After Brown University, MIT Shootings
“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,” Noem added. - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke..
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The United States has temporarily halted its Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV1) after revelations that the suspect in last week’s Brown University shooting entered the country through the lottery-based scheme. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem confirmed that the shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, received a green card via the program in 2017.
- The DV1 program annually allocates up to 50,000 immigrant visas.
- Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, allegedly killed two students at Brown University and injured nine others on December 13, also possibly killing an MIT professor.
- After a six-day manhunt, Valente was found dead in Salem, New Hampshire.
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