{"id":10883,"date":"2025-12-19T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/noem-announces-pause-on-immigrant-visa-lottery-that-allowed-alleged-brown-shooter-to-enter-us\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:02:01","slug":"noem-announces-pause-on-immigrant-visa-lottery-that-allowed-alleged-brown-shooter-to-enter-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/noem-announces-pause-on-immigrant-visa-lottery-that-allowed-alleged-brown-shooter-to-enter-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Noem announces pause on immigrant visa lottery that allowed alleged Brown shooter to enter US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The man accused of committing a mass shooting at Brown University entered the country under the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program lottery in 2017 and was given a green card, Department of Homeland Security Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/kristi-noem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristi Noem<\/a> said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Noem also said that she is instructing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the visa program following President Donald Trump&#8217;s direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Noem asserted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sec_Noem\/status\/2001873077089767435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;At President Trump\u2019s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/claudio-manuel-neves-valente-identified-brown-university-shooting-suspect-found-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLAUDIO MANUEL NEVES-VALENTE IDENTIFIED AS BROWN UNIVERSITY AND MIT SHOOTING SUSPECT, FOUND DEAD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national who was found dead on Thursday from &#8220;a self-inflicted gunshot wound,&#8221; according to officials, was the suspect in both the Brown University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/mass-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shooting<\/a> and in the separate murder of an M.I.T. professor.<\/p>\n<p>Valente was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\/college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brown University<\/a> student more than two decades ago, according to school President Christina Paxson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/brown-university-mass-shooting-manhunt-gunman-12-18-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLAUDIO MANUEL NEVES-VALENTE RESPONSIBLE FOR BROWN SHOOTING, MIT PROFESSOR&#8217;S MURDER, AUTHORITIES SAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neves Valente was enrolled at Brown as a graduate student from Fall 2000 to Spring 2001, but he has no active affiliation with Brown and has not been affiliated with Brown since 2003. He was not a current student, was not an employee and did not receive a degree from the University, attending for only three semesters as a graduate student until taking a leave in 2001 and formally withdrawing effective July 31, 2003,&#8221; she noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/who-nuno-loureiro-mit-professor-gunned-down-apartment-near-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WHO WAS NUNO LOUREIRO? MIT PROFESSOR GUNNED DOWN IN APARTMENT NEAR UNIVERSITY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neves Valente was admitted to Brown&#8217;s Graduate School to study in the Sc.M-PhD program in physics,&#8221; Paxson indicated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; FOX NEWS<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the website foxnews.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. 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