U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem suspended the Diversity Visa (DV) lottery program on Thursday, announcing that the suspect in the Brown University shooting had received a green card through the program.
Claudio Manuel Nos, 48, a Portuguese national, is accused of entering the Brown University building on December 13 and shooting at students taking exams, killing two and wounding nine.
He is also suspected of murdering a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) two days later.
Noem wrote on social media that Valente entered the United States in 2017 through the visa lottery program and received a green card.
At the behest of President Trump, he immediately ordered the USCIS to halt the program so that “no other Americans would be harmed,” adding: “This evil individual should never have been allowed into our country.”
US police announced on Thursday that Valente committed suicide by shooting himself.
The decision is part of the Trump administration’s strict immigration policies, which see the visa lottery program as disastrous.
