The State Department is indefinitely pausing a visa program intended to admit certain individuals to the United States, known as the diversity visa program.

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 program.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said, “The diversity lottery was established many decades ago. It was based on questionable assumptions at the time, and it lacks justification to this day. End it.” It ...