U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a House Homeland Security proceeding entitled "Worldwide Threats to the Homeland," connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., U.S. Dec. 11, 2025.
Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she was suspending the diverseness visa program, saying the antheral suspected of sidesplitting 2 students astatine Brown University had been granted one.
Noem posted to X precocious Thursday that she had instructed the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to intermission the (DV1) programme "to guarantee nary much Americans are harmed by this disastrous program."
On Dec. 13, 2 students died and 9 others were injured erstwhile idiosyncratic opened occurrence at the physics building astatine Brown University successful Providence, Rhode Island. Police aboriginal identified Portuguese nationalist Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, arsenic the suspect.
Valente was a erstwhile pupil astatine the assemblage and had been enrolled successful a Ph.D programme successful physics successful 2000, the university's president, Christina H. Paxson, said. Valente is besides suspected of having killed MIT physics prof Nuno Loureiro successful his location successful Brookline, Massachusetts, 2 days aft the Brown shooting.
Valente was found dead successful a New Hampshire retention installation connected Thursday, Providence Chief of Police Oscar Perez said.
"There's nary longer a menace to the public," the U.S. Attorney's Office successful Boston said successful a connection aft Valente's decease was confirmed.
Noem said that Valente entered the U.S. done the DV1 programme successful 2017 and was granted a greenish card.
"In 2017, President Trump fought to extremity this program, pursuing the devastating NYC motortruck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered nether the DV1 program, and murdered 8 people," she wrote connected X.
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program) allocates up to 50,000 migrant visas each year, according to the USCIS website.
The programme is simply a lottery. Visas are randomly allocated to individuals from countries with debased rates of migration to the U.S.
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