Noem suspends green card lottery system that allowed suspected Brown-MIT shooter into US

Published December 19, 2025 8:31am ET



Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has suspended the green card lottery program aimed at letting people from countries with low immigration rates into the United States.

Noem is enforcing the suspension because the alleged Brown University shooter used the diversity immigrant visa system to enter the U.S. The suspect, a Portuguese national, allegedly killed two students, an MIT professor, and wounded 9 others.

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