US EditionTrump says lax migration policies are top national security threat after National Guard members shot
USCIS halted green card processing for about 200,000 Afghan refugees admitted since 2021 to conduct a comprehensive security review amid concerns over vetting procedures.
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said the shooting that wounded two National Guard members near the White House proves lax migration policies are the nation's top threat, and the suspect is believed to be an Afghan national.
- Amid evacuations after Kabul's collapse, the suspect entered the U.S. via Operation Allies Welcome, which brought roughly 76,000 Afghans processed at U.S. military processing sites.
- USCIS announced it will indefinitely stop processing immigration requests for Afghan nationals while the administration reviews people who entered from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden.
- Administration officials have ramped up deportations and refugee admissions measures, leaving scores of Afghans in transit in limbo amid federal agencies resource realignment.
- He described Afghanistan as `a hellhole on earth` and criticized Minnesota's Somali community, while the reference to unrelated immigrants broadened scrutiny after Wednesday's shooting.
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It took only a few hours for President Donald Trump to turn what he called an "act of evil and an act of terror" into a full-fledged argument for an even more intense crackdown on immigration, writes CNN.
President Donald Trump only took a few hours to turn what he called “an act of evil and terrorism” into a strong argument for an even more intense crackdown on immigration. His promise came as the authorities detained a man Trump described as an Afghan citizen for the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard reservists in Washington. The military were in the capital as part of Trump’s controversial deployment of troops to reinforce law enfor…
The man suspected of shooting two National Guard soldiers in Washington had worked with the American armed forces in Afghanistan.
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