Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that, due to the shooting at Brown University and the murder of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), incidents linked to a foreign national residing in the United States, President Donald Trump ordered the suspension of the Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV-1) program.

“At the direction of President Trump, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV-1 program to ensure that no other American is harmed by this disastrous program,” the official wrote on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente is suspected of having fired a weapon in both the Brown University shooting, where two students were killed and nine others were wounded, and the murder of a professor at MIT.

The controversial aspect of the case is that the alleged perpetrator entered the country in 2017 through the Diversity Visa (DV) program, which makes up to 55,000 immigrant visas available worldwide through a random selection process. According to a police investigation, Neves Valente was enrolled at Brown University on a student visa starting in 2000, but then disappeared after interrupting his studies and was not heard from again until he obtained the visa in 2017, when Trump was already president. However, since his first term, the Republican was reluctant to continue the visa lottery following another fatal incident in which eight people were killed by an extremist in New York. “In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program after the devastating truck attack in New York City by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and killed eight people,” the head of the Department wrote. of Homeland Security (DHS).

Now, arguing the deaths caused by another immigrant,The conservative president intends to further restrict the entry of foreigners into the United States.