Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem pauses Green Card Lottery Programme, saying shooting suspect Claudio Neves Valente gained green card in 2017
The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, has ordered the suspension of the green card lottery programme at Donald Trump’s direction, saying it allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the US.
Suspect Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national, initially entered the US on a student visa in 2000 and later became a permanent resident in 2017, according to Oscar Perez, the police chief in Providence, Rhode Island. Valente was found dead on Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem said on X.
Trump has long opposed the diversity visa lottery. Noem’s announcement is the latest example of using tragedy to advance immigration policy goals.
We at WestVU think the US and the Free World must adopt a policy of considering the applicant’s interest-based filtering system for immigration instead of paper qualifications or random lotteries.
