US suspends green card lottery scheme after Brown shooting [View all]

Source: BBC

President Donald Trump has suspended the US green card lottery scheme in the wake of a mass shooting at Brown University last week in which two people were killed.

The suspect, a Portuguese man who was found dead on Thursday, entered the country through the diversity lottery immigrant visa programme (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she has paused the visa scheme under Trump's direction to "ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous programme".
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The programme makes up to 50,000 visas available each year through a random selection process among entries from countries with low rates of immigration to the US.

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