The administration of President Donald Trump has announced it will halt the visa lottery programme that allowed the suspect in the Brown University shooting to enter the United States.The lottery awards approximately 50,000 immigrant visas each year, according to the US government.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut Trump has long opposed the Diversity Immigrant Visa Programme, sometimes known as the DV Programme. On Friday, his secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, revealed that he had directed her to end the lottery immediately.She also identified the suspect as Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who received his green card, a certificate for permanent residency, through the lottery in 2017.“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem wrote in her social media statement.“At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.”Campaign to end visa lotteryFriday’s announcement is not the first time Trump has sought to wind down the diversity visa lottery.Trump has long sought to narrow the country’s pathways to legal immigration, and he has used crime as a pretext for doing so.Noem herself pointed out that, in 2017, Trump “fought” to shut down the diversity visa lottery in the wake of an attack in New York City in which a truck rammed into a crowd of people, killing eight.Speaking at a graduation ceremon …
