Trump pausa "lotería de visas" tras tiroteos vinculados a inmigrante con residencia
La administración del presidente Donald Trump suspendió el programa de Visas de Diversidad alegando fallas en la seguridad nacional. El sospechoso de los ataques en Brown y el MIT obtuvo su residencia por esta vía en 2017. Analizamos el impacto para los solicitantes de la región
TL;DR
- The U.S. has suspended the Diversity Visa (DV1) program indefinitely.
- The suspension was ordered by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem following the discovery that the suspect in recent university shootings entered the U.S. via this program.
- The suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, had a history of student visas and obtained a green card in 2017 by winning the visa lottery.
- Valente was identified as the perpetrator of shootings at Brown University and the murder of a professor at MIT.
- President Trump had previously suspended the program in 2020 citing the economic impact of COVID-19, a measure reversed by Joe Biden in 2021.
- The DV1 program offers up to 55,000 visas annually to individuals from countries with low immigration rates to the U.S.
- Experts question the legal basis for the Department of Homeland Security to unilaterally halt a program established by Congress.