Trump Orders Immediate Halt to Diversity Visa Lottery After Brown Shooting Revelation

Overview

• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she directed USCIS to suspend the DV1 program on the president's order.
• Officials said the Brown shooting suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the U.S. via the lottery in 2017 and later received a green card.
• Providence police said Neves Valente was found dead in New Hampshire and determined he died by suicide.
• The Diversity Visa program, created in 1990, offers up to about 50,000 immigrant visas annually to applicants from countries with low recent U.S. migration following screening and an interview.
• The suspension leaves the program’s future unclear and is expected to trigger renewed debate in Congress over immigration vetting and policy.