U.S. Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem speaks throughout a Home Homeland Safety listening to entitled “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. Dec. 11, 2025.
Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters
U.S. Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned she was suspending the variety visa program at President Donald Trump’s route, saying the person suspected of killing two college students at Brown College and a MIT professor had been granted one.
Noem posted on X late Thursday that she had instructed the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Companies to pause the (DV1) program “to make sure no extra Individuals are harmed by this disastrous program.”
On Dec. 13, two college students died and 9 others have been injured when somebody opened fireplace on the physics constructing at Brown College in Windfall, Rhode Island. Police later recognized Portuguese nationwide Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, because the suspect.
Valente was a former scholar on the college and had been enrolled in a Ph.D. program in physics in 2000, the college’s president, Christina H. Paxson, mentioned. Valente can also be suspected of getting killed MIT physics professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, in his residence in Brookline, Massachusetts, two days after the Brown capturing. Valente and Loureiro are believed to have attended the identical college of their native Portugal.
Authorities introduced the suspect’s identification hours after Valente was discovered useless in a New Hampshire storage facility on Thursday, Windfall Police Chief Oscar Perez mentioned. Weapons have been additionally discovered on the scene.
“There is not any longer a menace to the general public,” the U.S. legal professional’s workplace in Boston mentioned in an announcement after Valente’s demise was confirmed. Authorities imagine Valente acted alone and haven’t disclosed a motive for the killings.
Noem mentioned that Valente entered the U.S. via the DV1 program in 2017 and was granted a inexperienced card.
“In 2017, President Trump fought to finish this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered beneath the DV1 program, and murdered eight individuals,” she wrote on X.
The Variety Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program) allocates as much as 50,000 immigrant visas yearly, in response to the USCIS web site.
This system is a lottery. Visas are randomly allotted to people from international locations with low charges of immigration to the U.S.
— Dan Mangan contributed to this report.
