US suspends green card lottery scheme after Brown shooting
US suspends green card lottery scheme after Brown shooting
The suspect in the university shooting and the murder of an MIT professor entered the US via the scheme.
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Truth Analysis
Analysis Summary:
The article is factually accurate, stating that the US suspended the green card lottery after a shooting involving a suspect who entered the US through the program. The sources confirm the suspension and the suspect's entry via the lottery. The bias is minimal, with a slight slant towards reporting the event.
Detailed Analysis:
- Claim: US suspends green card lottery scheme after Brown shooting.
- Verification Source #1: Confirms Trump suspended the green card lottery program after the Brown shooting.
- Verification Source #3: Confirms Trump suspended the green card lottery program.
- Verification Source #4: Confirms Trump suspended the green card lottery program.
- Verification Source #5: Confirms President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program.
- Assessment: Supported
- Claim: The suspect in the university shooting and the murder of an MIT professor entered the US via the scheme.
- Verification Source #1: Confirms the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings entered the US through the green card lottery program.
- Verification Source #5: Confirms President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program that allowed Neves Valente into the U.S.
- Assessment: Supported
Supporting Evidence/Contradictions:
- Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US (Source 1, 3, 4)
- President Donald Trump suspended on Thursday the green card lottery program that allowed Neves Valente into the U.S. (Source 5)