NEW YORK. – The White House announced this on Friday the suspension of the program Permanent Resident Card Lottery, or green cards, with which he entered the United States a Portuguese suspected Murder of two Brown University students and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT with his initials in English).
The Minister of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, said in a release on the social platform Donald Trump, called on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to pause the lottery program for permanent residency cards, known as “green cards” for “Ensure that no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.”
“This vile person should never have entered our country.” Noem spoke about the suspect in the three crimes, the Portuguese Claudio Neves Valente.
Neves Valente, 48, is suspected of committing the crime a shooting at Brown University that left two students deadand from Murder of an MIT professor.
Neves Valente was found dead in New Hampshire on Thursday. along with two firearms, authorities reported.
“He took his own life” said Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez.
Neves Valente had studied at Brown at a Student visa according to an affidavit from a Providence police officer starting in 2000. He was recognized in 2017 a diversity immigration visa and months later he received the legal permanent residence status, according to the affidavit. It is not immediately clear where he was between his leave of absence from the university in 2001 and his visa being granted in 2017.
The diversity visa program offers up to 50,000 “green cards” per year through a raffle to people from countries that are underrepresented in the United States, many of them in Africa. The lottery was created by Congress in 1990, and Trump’s new anti-immigration measure is likely to face legal challenges. To obtain the visa, an exam and an interview must be passed.
Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 visa lottery, with more than 131,000 selected including the spouses of beneficiaries. After winning, they must undergo a verification process to be admitted to the United States. Portuguese citizens received only 38 places.
Trump has long opposed the diversity visa lottery. Noem’s announcement is the latest example of this how to exploit a tragedy to advance immigration policy goals. After an Afghan man was identified as the attacker in a deadly attack on National Guard members in November, the Trump administration imposed strict rules against immigration from Afghanistan and other countries.
While they sought mass deportation, Trump has sought to limit or eliminate legal immigration options. The Supreme Court even recently agreed to hear his birthright challenge.
That’s what the researchers believe Neves Valente is responsible for shooting two students and wounding nine other people in a classroom at Brown University last Saturday, and then killing Nuno FG Loureiro. Portuguese professor at MIT, two days later at his home in a suburb of Boston, almost 50 miles from Providence. Perez said that, to investigators’ knowledge, Neves Valente acted alone.
Christina Paxson, president of Brown University, said Neves Valente was enrolled as a doctoral student in physics at the university from fall 2000 to spring 2001.
“He currently has no connection to the university,” he emphasized.
So far, no motive has been identified to explain the events two of the most prestigious universities in the United States.
“We now don’t know why, why Brown, why these students and why this classroom,” said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha.
Neves Valente and Loureiro attended the same academic program at a university in Portugal between 1995 and 2000, Massachusetts Attorney General Leah B. Foley revealed. According to his MIT faculty page, Loureiro graduated from the physics program at Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal’s leading engineering school, in 2000. That same year, Neves Valente was fired from a position at the University of Lisbon, according to a February 2000 file of a dismissal notice from the school’s then-rector.
Loureiro came to MIT in 2016 and last year was tapped to lead the school’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, one of its largest labs. He had worked to explain the physics behind astronomical phenomena such as solar flares.
The two students who died during a final exam study session at Brown University were Ella Cook, 19, a second-year student, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, Newbie.
The police attributed the provision to a person who had several encounters with Neves Valente the crucial clue who helped authorities find the attacker.
After police released images of a person wanted in connection with the crimes, the witness – identified only as “John” in a Providence police affidavit – He realized it and posted his suspicions on the social media forum Reddit. Reddit users urged him to inform the FBI, and John claimed to have done so.
John said he had encountered Neves Valente hours earlier in the bathroom of the engineering building where the shooting occurred and noticed he was wearing clothing that was not appropriate for the weather, according to the affidavit. A few blocks away he encountered Neves Valente again and saw him suddenly walking away from a Nissan sedan when he saw John.
“This person walked us to the car, which led us to the name” Neronha said.
Her tip gave investigators an important detail: a Nissan car with a Florida license plate. This gave Providence police access to a network of more than 70 surveillance cameras.
Providence authorities said that after Neves Valente left Rhode Island, he placed a Maine license plate over the license plate of the rental car to conceal his identity.
The footage showed Neves Valente entering a building near Loureiro’s home in a Boston suburb. About an hour later, Neves Valente was seen entering the warehouse in Salem, New Hampshire, where he was found dead. Foley said. He had a briefcase and two firearms with him, Neronha explained.
After this became public, Brown University faced criticism over campus safety, including from President Trump None of the 1,200 surveillance cameras were connected to the police surveillance system.
Such cases have been recorded, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an event in which four or more people are injured by gunfire More than 300 mass shootings in the US since the beginning of the year.
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