US Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem said late on Thursday that President Donald Trump ordered her to pause the diversity visa lottery, which was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting, DW.com has reported.
”At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program,” Noem said.
How is the visa suspension linked to the Brown University shooting?
Noem said the shooting suspect entered the United States in 2017, using the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1).
The suspect, a 48-year-old Portuguese man who two decades earlier was a Brown University student, later obtained a green card under the same program.
”This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem said.
Last week, two people were killed and nine others were wounded in a mass shooting at Brown University.
Authorities on Thursday found the suspect dead of self-inflicted wounds at a storage facility in the state of New Hampshire and are investigating the case.
Investigators believe the man was also responsible for the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, who was fatally shot in Boston on Monday, US Attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley said.
What is the diversity visa lottery?
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program) makes over 50,000 immigrant visas available annually, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Eligible applicants must be “from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States,” according to the State Department
The diversity visa program was created by Congress
The decision to halt the program is expected to be legally challenged.
Nigeria was removed from the program in 2015.
US Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem said late on Thursday that President Donald Trump ordered her to pause the diversity visa lottery, which was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting, DW.com has reported.
”At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program,” Noem said.
How is the visa suspension linked to the Brown University shooting?
Noem said the shooting suspect entered the United States in 2017, using the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1).
The suspect, a 48-year-old Portuguese man who two decades earlier was a Brown University student, later obtained a green card under the same program.
”This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem said.
Last week, two people were killed and nine others were wounded in a mass shooting at Brown University.
Authorities on Thursday found the suspect dead of self-inflicted wounds at a storage facility in the state of New Hampshire and are investigating the case.
Investigators believe the man was also responsible for the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, who was fatally shot in Boston on Monday, US Attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley said.
What is the diversity visa lottery?
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program) makes over 50,000 immigrant visas available annually, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Eligible applicants must be “from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States,” according to the State Department
The diversity visa program was created by Congress
The decision to halt the program is expected to be legally challenged.
Nigeria was removed from the program in 2015.
US suspends diversity visa lottery after Brown Uni shooting
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