Trump Suspends Green Card Lottery After Brown, MIT Attacks

People place flowers at a memorial for shooting victims on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on Dec. 16, 2025.Photographer: John Tlumacki/Boston Globe/Getty Images

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By Ramsey Al-Rikabi and Alicia A. Caldwell

December 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM UTC

Updated on

December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM UTC

The Trump administration is halting the US green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that she’s asking US Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the lottery, officially known as the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.