"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the decision in a post on X, saying she was acting at President Trump's direction. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country, Noem wrote, referring to Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese man identified by authorities as the perpetrator of the attacks. She added that she had ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to immediately pause the visa program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program."
"According to court documents and official statements, Neves Valente first entered the United States in 2000 on a student visa to pursue graduate studies at Brown University, where he later carried out the December 13 shooting that left two students dead. Brown University President Christina H. Paxson said the man enrolled in a Ph.D. program in physics but took a leave of absence in the spring of 2001 and formally withdrew two years later."
The Diversity Visa Program, which issues up to 50,000 green cards annually to nationals of countries with low U.S. immigration rates, was ordered suspended by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at President Trump's direction. Authorities identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese man, as the suspect in the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT professor; he obtained lawful permanent resident status through the program after being selected in 2017. Neves Valente first entered the U.S. in 2000 on a student visa to study at Brown, later left the Ph.D. program, and was found dead in New Hampshire.
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