Trump Administration suspending program that allowed suspect in Brown University and MIT professor shootings to enter United States

President Donald Trump is suspending the visa program that allowed the Brown University and MIT professor shooter into the country.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the move on social media.

“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.”

On Thursday night, Attorney General Peter Neronha, Mayor Brett Smiley, the Providence Police Department, the Rhode Island State Police, the Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island announced the death of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the individual responsible for the murders of two students during a mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, December 13, 2025.