Campus Safety

After investigators tied the Brown University and MIT shootings to Claudio Manuel Neves Valente — who entered the U.S. in 2017 through the Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV1) program — President Trump directed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to order U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the DV lottery. The pause is part of a wider 2025 push by the administration to scale back legal immigration — including suspensions of asylum decisions for certain nationals, travel‑ban‑linked restrictions and curbs on programs like Temporary Protected Status — measures that have already altered millions of immigrants’ status and are expected to face legal challenges.