After the shooting at Brown University, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas said on Thursday evening that the Trump administration is preparing to suspend an immigration program that had granted permanent residency to a man suspected of killing two students at Brown University and a professor at MIT. However, some immigration law experts pointed out that it is unclear whether the government has the authority to take this action, as the diversity visa program was established by Congress. Under this program, up to 55,000 visas can be issued annually through a lottery system to individuals from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. This accounts for only a small portion of the overall U.S. immigration volume. The suspect in the Brown University shooting, Claudion Manuel Neves Valente, obtained a diversity visa in 2017 and became a legal permanent resident of the United States that same year. Mayorkas posted on the social media platform X that such people should not have been allowed in.
At the same time, the Trump administration has expanded the scope of the comprehensive suspension of legal immigration applications, including applicants from an additional 20 countries added in Trump's "travel ban" announcement this week. This move mainly affects immigrants from some African and Asian countries, further escalating the Trump administration's broad crackdown on legal immigration that was expanded this month. Many of those affected are likely lawful immigrants currently in the United States who are seeking to change their status or apply for naturalization.
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