For decades, Washington has treated immigration policy like a social experiment. American families? They’re the unwitting test subjects. Politicians preach the virtues of “diversity” from behind gated communities and security details. Meanwhile, ordinary citizens bear the consequences of their reckless open-borders ideology. The diversity visa lottery—a scheme that distributes 55,000 green cards annually based on little more than luck—has long been a disaster waiting to happen. Lawmakers couldn’t be bothered to prevent it.

Americans are dead. Again. Three brilliant lives cut short, nine more forever scarred, and communities from Providence to Cambridge left reeling. While Democrats spent years blocking immigration reform, President Trump has finally taken decisive action. This should have happened nearly a decade ago.

From the Daily Wire:

“The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on X. “In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people.”

The Diversity Gamble

The man responsible for this carnage was Claudio Manuel Neves Valente. He was a 48-year-old Portuguese national who entered the United States in 2017 through the very lottery system Secretary Noem condemned. On a December Saturday afternoon, Valente walked into a Brown University engineering building during a finals week review session. Then he opened fire.

Two students died that day—Ella Cook of Alabama and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov of Virginia. Nine others sustained wounds. But his rampage didn’t end there.

Authorities have now confirmed that while evading capture for six days, Valente traveled to Massachusetts. He murdered Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a renowned MIT nuclear physics professor, at his home. Three Americans with limitless potential, erased by a man who never should have set foot on our soil.

Here’s how the diversity visa lottery works. (Brace yourself.) Random selection from countries with historically low immigration rates. No particular skills required. No family connections necessary. Just pure luck—and apparently minimal vetting to ensure winners won’t become threats to the nation, welcoming them.

Trump Warned Us

This horror carries a sickening sense of déjà vu. Sound familiar? It should.

In 2017, an ISIS terrorist—who had also entered through the diversity visa lottery—drove a truck down a Manhattan bike path. Eight innocent people died. President Trump immediately called on Congress to eliminate the program that made such an attack possible.

Congress refused.

Democrats, joined by spineless Republicans, couldn’t bring themselves to scrap a program with “diversity” in its name. The body count didn’t matter. The political optics of appearing insufficiently welcoming to the world apparently outweighed American safety. Trump’s warning was dismissed as xenophobic fearmongering. The same establishment voices now offer hollow “thoughts and prayers” to grieving families in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Eight years later, President Trump is back in the Oval Office. He’s done waiting for a Congress that refuses to prioritize American lives. At his direction, Secretary Noem ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to immediately pause the diversity visa lottery.

Democrats’ Dangerous Priorities

Make no mistake. Democrats will fight this pause with everything they have.

They’ll dust off familiar talking points about America being “a nation of immigrants.” They’ll accuse the administration of racism for daring to suggest we shouldn’t distribute green cards like carnival prizes. The same politicians who demand endless restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens will howl about the injustice of pausing a random immigration lottery.

Watch closely in the coming weeks. The Democrats who offer performative grief for campus violence victims will reveal themselves soon enough. They’ll inevitably move to restore a system that has now enabled mass murder on multiple occasions. They will choose dangerous aliens over American students, professors, and families.

Every. Single. Time.

Diversity is their religion. No amount of American blood shakes their faith.

The families of Ella Cook, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and Nuno Loureiro deserved better. They deserved a government that doesn’t gamble with their loved ones’ lives in the name of political correctness. President Trump understood this threat eight years ago. Now he’s finally positioned to act without relying on a captured Congress.

Elections have consequences. This is exactly the decisive leadership Americans demanded.

Key Takeaways

• President Trump paused the diversity visa lottery after the Brown University shooter entered through the program in 2017.
• Trump warned Congress to end this program in 2017 after an ISIS terrorist attack; Democrats blocked reform.
• The shooter killed two Brown students and an MIT professor while evading capture for six days.
• Expect Democrats to fight to restore a program that prioritizes “diversity” over American safety.

Sources: Daily Wire, Fox News