Trump suspends green card lottery programme

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December 20, 2025

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United States President Donald Trump has suspended the green card lottery programme.

The programme allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. (See page 14)

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the programme.

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