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U.S. President Trump has suspended the green card lottery immigration program.
Recently, a person who came to the U.S. through this program was suspected of shooting at Brown University and MIT, causing multiple casualties.
The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security said this person came to the U.S. through the green card lottery in 2017 and obtained a green card.
She stated that such people should not be allowed to enter the United States.
President Trump wanted to cancel this program as early as 2017 because someone who came through this program also carried out an attack in New York at that time.
Now, the government has requested to suspend the green card lottery program to protect the safety of Americans.
The green card lottery program gives people from countries with low immigration rates a chance each year to obtain eligibility to immigrate to the U.S. through a lottery.
About 50,000 people each year can obtain green cards through this program.