WASHINGTON: United States homeland safety chief Kristi Noem suspended a inexperienced card lottery on Thursday (Dec 18), saying it was utilized by the suspect in a mass shooting at Brown University.
Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese nationwide, is accused of bursting right into a constructing on the Ivy League faculty on Dec 13 and opening hearth on college students sitting exams, killing two and wounding 9.
He’s additionally accused of killing a professor on the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise (MIT) two days later.
Noem wrote on social media that Neves Valente “entered the US by means of the variety lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a inexperienced card”.
“At President Trump’s path, I’m instantly directing USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Companies) to pause the DV1 program to make sure no extra People are harmed by this disastrous program,” Noem wrote.
“This heinous particular person ought to by no means have been allowed in our nation.”
Neves Valente was discovered lifeless by suicide after a days-long manhunt, police stated on Thursday night.
The US inexperienced card lottery grants as much as 55,000 everlasting resident visas yearly to individuals “from nations with low charges of immigration to the US”, in keeping with the State Division.
To qualify, candidates should have at the very least a highschool schooling or two years of coaching or work expertise.
In addition they undergo a vetting course of that features an interview.
