US EditionWhat Is Operation Allies Welcome, the Program Officials Say Brought the DC Shooting Suspect to the US?
Rahmanullah Lakanwal arrived under a program resettling over 190,000 Afghans after US withdrawal, raising questions about vetting and asylum policy changes.
- On Wednesday night, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspect accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members near the White House, arrived via Operation Allies Welcome on September 8, 2021.
- Former President Joe Biden launched Operation Allies Welcome in August 2021 to evacuate Afghan allies with multi-layered security vetting by DHS, FBI, Department of Defense and intelligence partners, later shifting to Enduring Welcome with more than 88,000 arrivals admitted under humanitarian parole.
- He applied for asylum in 2024 and was later granted it under the Trump administration, while authorities have been re-interviewing Afghan migrants and USCIS stopped processing Afghan requests late Wednesday.
- The incident has placed renewed political scrutiny on the resettlement program as President Donald Trump said, `This attack underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation` and called for a re-examination of Afghan arrivals under the Biden administration.
- Over 190,000 Afghans have resettled in the U.S., an estimated 260,000 applicants remain waiting, and more than 40% were eligible for Special Immigrant Visas , DHS says.
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Vance Vows to Deport Those With ‘No Right to Be’ in US After DC Shooting
from Sputnik News: WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Vice President JD Vance, amid reports that an Afghan national who had arrived under former President Joe Biden shot National Guard members in downtown Washington, said such people should not have been allowed into the country. “They shouldn’t have been in our country,” Vance wrote on X on […]
Trump says that all the people who came during the Biden regime should be re-examined and all steps should be taken to send back those who are not beneficial to the country.
Exclusive | Americans who helped resettle Afghan allies feel ‘betrayed’ by suspected DC terrorist who was given safe haven
Americans who helped resettle Afghan allies in the US following the Biden administration's 2021 disastrous withdrawal from Kabul are heartbroken and angry about the "betrayal" of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the accused terrorist and force Afghan evacuee behind the DC Thanksgiving eve shooting.
Afghan Ex–CIA Partner Accused in D.C. National Guard Ambush
Sam Cooper In what FBI Director Kash Patel called a “heinous act of terrorism,” senior U.S. officials say they have opened a “coast-to-coast” investigation into the gunman who opened fire on two National Guard members just blocks from the White House — an Afghan man who had worked with a Central Intelligence Agency–backed paramilitary unit during the war in Afghanistan and later resettled in the United States under a Biden-era evacuation program…
Afghan National Who Ambushed Two National Guard Members Reportedly Worked with US Government Agencies Including CIA | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
More shocking details have emerged about the Afghan national who ambushed and shot two U.S. National Guard soldiers just steps away from the White House on Wednesday, thanks to the catastrophic security failure and a possible terrorist attack enabled by the Biden regime’s reckless immigration policies. Multiple federal law enforcement sources have confirmed to Fox News that the suspect, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered t…
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