The United States has moved to pause the green card lottery program that enabled the suspect in the Brown University shooting to enter the country, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Dec. 18.
The program’s suspension follows the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University that left two students dead and nine injured. Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown student, was identified as the suspect in both that attack and the Dec. 15 fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at his home near Boston. The motive for the attacks remains unclear.
