Noem has suspended the 1990 “Diversity Visa” lottery program after the revelation that the Brown University shooter was a 2017 beneficiary.
Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem has suspended the long-established “Diversity Visa” lottery program after the revelation that the Brown University shooter was a beneficiary in 2017.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem announced late Thursday, adding:
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 [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.
The killer, Claudio Neves Valente, was a Portuguese national who won the lottery in 2017. He allegedly killed two people — a Portuguese nuclear scientist and a conservative activist.
Trump tried to block the program during his first term, and his Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently tightened oversight of the winners.
But neither Trump nor Noem can stop the Democrat-backed program, which has imported 50,000 new migrants per year from countries with diverse cultures and conflicts.
