President Trump Halts Variety Visa Program Following Brown College Taking pictures | JP
This was a much needed move.
As JP previously reported, authorities have identified the shooter in the Brown University shooting that left two people dead and nine injured.
Authorities have identified the shooter as 48-year-old Portuguese National Claudio Neves-Valente.
Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem stated Neves-Valente entered the country by a Diversity Visa issued to him in 2017.
As a response to the shooting president Trump has stopped all Diversity Visa’s being issued.
The Guardian reported more on Trump’s move to end the visa program and contradicted Noem’s claims that Neve-Valente entered the United States through a Diversity Visa:
The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, has ordered the suspension of the green card lottery program 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.
After an Afghan man was identified as the gunman in a fatal attack on National Guard members in November, Trump’s administration imposed sweeping rules against immigration from Afghanistan and other counties.
The DV1 visa program makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year by lottery to people from countries that are little represented in the US, many of them in Africa.
Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 visa lottery, with more than 131,000 selected when including spouses with the winners. After winning, they must undergo vetting to win admission to the US. Portuguese citizens won only 38 slots.
Take a look at Noem’s statement:
The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country.
In 2017, President Trump…
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) December 19, 2025
Full text:
The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country.
In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people.
At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.
Fox News reported Claudio Manuel Neves Valente is also behind the shooting that led to the death of a MIT professor:
BREAKING: Authorities say Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente carried out the Brown University attack and is also responsible for the murder of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts. pic.twitter.com/5qTfOpRn3m
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 19, 2025