No green cards: The US restricts the movement of foreigners
19 December 10:14
The United States suspends the issuance of green cards after the shooting that took place at Brown University. The shooter, who killed two and injured 9 students, was a 48-year-old migrant who entered the United States through the green card program.
This is reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to a post by US Secretary of Homeland Security Christie Noem.
Noem said that the shooter from Brown University, 48-year-old Portuguese citizen Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the United States under the DV1 immigrant visa program in 2017 and received a green card.
“In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program after a devastating truck attack on New York City by an ISIS terrorist who entered the DV1 program and killed eight people. At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately ordering U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to suspend the DV1 program to ensure that this disastrous program does not harm any Americans,” she wrote.
The DV1 program
The DV1 program was launched in the 1990s and offers up to 50,000 visas to citizens of countries with low immigration to the United States. It is believed that visa recipients are selected randomly through a lottery, and millions of people around the world participate in the visa draw every year.
However, even winning does not mean an automatic visa. Applicants must have a high school diploma or two years of work experience in the industry they want to work in the United States. In addition, they will be interviewed and vetted, and only then will they be granted a green card.
As a reminder, on December 14, Brown University in Rhode Island declared an emergency due to a shooting on campus. Later it became known that the shooter, an immigrant from Portugal, injured nine students, killed two and committed suicide, as the police found him dead.
