President Donald Trump has suspended the US green card lottery, that allowed Claudio Neves Valente come into US.
Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, affirmed this judgement.
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”.
This comes as Valente, who is originally from Portugal, is believed to be responsible for shootings in Brown University and MIT, which left two students and nine others injured.
US officials revealed that the suspect, 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, is also believed to have killed Portuguese Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro earlier this week.
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Valente first arrived in the US with a student visa in 2000 and became a permanent resident, acquring his US green card, 17 years later.
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The 48-year-old has since been discovered dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
Through a random selection process among entrants from nations with low rates of immigration to the US, the program makes up to 50,000 US green cards available annually.
Meanwhile, Police said video evidence and tips from the public led investigators to a car rental location where they found the suspect’s name and matched him to their person of interest, following a six-day multi-state manhunt.
He had two guns and a backpack when he was discovered dead. According to Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, evidence in a neighbouring automobile matched the site of the incident at Brown University in Providence.
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