Trump Suspends Green Card Lottery Because Bad Guy Beat the Odds

KEY POINTS

•President Trump ordered Homeland Security to immediately halt the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery.
•The announcement came after suspect Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who had a green card from the program, was found dead following the Brown University shootings.
•Trump's move echoes his past calls to end the program amid likely legal challenges from advocacy groups.

In a plot twist that feels like an immigration-themed bad sitcom, President Trump ordered Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to 'immediately' halt the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery—because apparently, letting a Portuguese guy who studied at Brown in the 2000s and got a green card in 2017 turn really bad is unacceptable. Noem called the program 'disastrous' and personally handed out blame for Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the Brown University shooting suspect found dead after killing an MIT professor. Trump's campaign to kill the DV1 program started back in 2017 and now faces a legal rematch courtesy of immigration advocates, because Congress originally set this up to give 55,000 people visas a year from countries with ‘low immigration rates.’ If irony was a visa type, this story would have premium processing.

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Mockingbird News

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Trump’s plan to pause a green card lottery because one guy turned evil is like banning pizza because someone ate too much—America, the land of selective logic.

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