On Thursday, the Trump administration declared that it will halt a green card lottery that permitted a man suspected of being responsible for both the murder of an MIT professor and the mass shooting at Brown University to enter the country.
The 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente is charged with breaking into a building at the Ivy League school on Saturday and shooting students, leaving two dead and nine injured. Two days later, he is also charged with killing a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Neves Valente “entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card,” according to a social media post made by Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem on Thursday.
According to the State Department, the US green card lottery awards up to 55,000 permanent residence visas each year to citizens of nations with low immigration rates.
Neves Valente, who police say was discovered dead by suicide on Thursday following a days-long manhunt, was a “heinous individual” who should never have been permitted in our nation, according to Noem.
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