The man accused of committing a mass shooting at Brown University entered the country under the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program lottery in 2017 and was given a green card, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X.
Noem also said that she is instructing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the visa program following President Donald Trump’s direction.
« 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, » Noem asserted in the post.
« 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, » she continued. « 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. »
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Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national who was found dead on Thursday from « a self-inflicted gunshot wound, » according to officials, was the suspect in both the Brown University shooting and in the separate murder of an M.I.T. professor.
Valente was a Brown University student more than two decades ago, according to school President Christina Paxson.
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« Neves Valente was enrolled at Brown as a graduate student from Fall 2000 to Spring 2001, but he has no active affiliation with Brown and has not been affiliated with Brown since 2003. He was not a current student, was not an employee and did not receive a degree from the University, attending for only three semesters as a graduate student until taking a leave in 2001 and formally withdrawing effective July 31, 2003, » she noted.
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« Neves Valente was admitted to Brown’s Graduate School to study in the Sc.M-PhD program in physics, » Paxson indicated.
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