Patriot Brief
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Program suspended: DHS announced an immediate pause of the Diversity Visa lottery following new security concerns.
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Shooter identified: Officials confirmed the Brown University attacker entered the U.S. through the visa lottery program.
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Policy fight continues: The Trump administration has long opposed the program, which was created by Democrats in 1990.
The Trump administration is once again pulling the emergency brake on an immigration program critics have warned about for years. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced an immediate suspension of the Diversity Visa lottery after it was revealed the Brown University shooter entered the United States through the program. The move reignites a long-running debate over a system that randomly imports tens of thousands of foreign nationals each year with minimal vetting. Supporters call it diversity. Critics call it reckless. With Americans now dead and another campus shattered, the administration says the risks are no longer theoretical and the consequences are no longer acceptable.
Breitbart reports:
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.
While Democrats continue defending the visa lottery as a social experiment, the Trump administration is making clear it will not gamble with American lives. For critics of mass migration, the suspension is long overdue and a reminder that border policy is not abstract when blood has already been spilled.
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