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Trump suspends US green card lottery in wake of Brown University and MIT shootings

Secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem
Secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, declared the Brown University and MIT shooting suspect a ‘heinous individual [who] should never have been allowed in our country.’ Photograph: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock

The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, has ordered the suspension of the green card lottery program at Donald Trump’s direction, saying it allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the US.

Suspect Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national, initially entered the US on a student visa in 2000 and later became a permanent resident in 2017, according to Oscar Perez, the police chief in Providence, Rhode Island. Valente was found dead on Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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