Trump orders immediate suspension of green card lottery
Trump orders immediate suspension of green card lottery
President Donald Trump has ordered the immediate suspension of the Diversity Visa Lottery Program, commonly known as the green card lottery.
In a statement on Friday, December 19, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the decision follows renewed scrutiny of the program after a deadly shooting involving a former diversity visa recipient and earlier terrorist attacks connected to the same immigration pathway.
She said the individual responsible for the Brown University shooting entered the United States through the diversity visa program and later obtained permanent residency.
“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,” she said.
Noem also pointed to a previous attack during Trump’s earlier presidency, saying concerns over the program were raised after a deadly terrorist incident in New York City involving a diversity visa recipient.
“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,” she added.
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Noem said the order from Trump takes effect immediately, with immigration authorities instructed to halt the program while further action is considered.
“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,” she concluded.
This comes weeks after Trump announced that he intends to halt migration from Third World countries entirely.
In a statement on Friday, November 28, he described the pause as necessary for America’s recovery, adding that he will remove noncitizens he considers unhelpful to the United States.
Trump added that his administration will eliminate federal support for them and denaturalize individuals he believes threaten domestic stability.
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