Trump Halts Green Card Lottery That Admitted Brown and MIT Shooting Suspect
Washington Free Beacon Staff
December 19, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday suspended a federal green card lottery program after authorities confirmed that the suspect in the deadly shootings at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor entered the United States through the program.
"This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country," Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem said, announcing that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would pause the program at Trump’s discretion. Investigators identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national who obtained a green card through the diversity visa lottery in 2017, according to the Boston Globe.
Neves Valente, 48, is suspected of killing two Brown University students, wounding nine others, and murdering an MIT professor before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to authorities.
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