Trump administration suspends US green card lottery
Summary
US Homeland Security suspends the green card lottery after it was used by a mass shooting suspect who killed three and wounded nine in the US.
Key Points
- US Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem suspended the green card lottery program following use by a mass shooting suspect.
- The suspect, Claudio Neves Valente, entered the US through the Diversity Visa immigrant program in 2017.
- Valente killed two students at Brown University and a professor at MIT before dying by suicide.
- President Trump directed the immediate pause of the DV1 program to prevent further harm.
