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chairman donald trump is suspending green card lottery program who allowed the person responsible for brown university firing and killing of one with Professor to enter the country.
In a post to X, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called out the gunman, Claudio Manuel Neves ValenteEntered the US in 2017.
“This heinous individual should never be allowed into our country,” he wrote on Twitter.
“In 2017, President Trump fought to end the program after an ISIS terrorist drove a devastating NYC truckload that entered under the DV1 program and killed eight people.
“At the direction of President Trump, I am immediately directing USCIS to halt the DV1 program to ensure that no more Americans are harmed by this destructive program.”
Neves Valente, 48, shot two students and wounded nine others before killing MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. According to reports, the couple were classmates in his native Portugal the new York Times.
Authorities confirmed the suspect was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday.
FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Ted Docs said there were no known suspects, adding that the agency had deployed about 500 agents to assist local authorities in the investigation.
“Even though the suspect was found dead tonight, our work is not done. There are many questions that need to be answered,” he said.
On Saturday, Neves Valente went to Brown’s Baras and Holley Engineering Building and fired shots at students who were sitting for final exams.
Authorities confirmed that 19-year-old Ella Cook and 18-year-old Mukhammed Aziz Umarzokov died from the shooting.
Brown confirmed that Neves Valente was enrolled at the university from spring 2000 to spring 2001, studying for a PhD in physics, but had no affiliation with the school at the time of the attack.
On Monday, Neves Valente shot and killed 47-year-old Loureiro near her home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
The diversity visa program that Neves Valente was on makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year. People from countries underrepresented in the United States obtain visas through a lottery.
Many of these countries are in Africa and approximately 20 million people are expected to apply for visas in 2025; More than 131,000 were selected as winners, including spouses.
Trump has long opposed visas and other forms of immigration into the country.
In November, an Afghan man was identified as the gunman in a deadly attack on National Guard members, prompting the Trump administration to impose rules against immigration from Afghanistan and other countries.