post<\/a> on Thursday night, Trump said he would \u201cpermanently pause migration from all Third World Countries\u201d, expanding a previous move to stop all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals.<\/p>\nTrump further pledged to \u201cremove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country\u201d.<\/p>\n
The administration had already said it would re-vet refugees and asylum seekers admitted into the US under former President Joe Biden, with the director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) saying on Thursday that it would conduct a \u201cfull-scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern\u201d.<\/p>\n
The policy changes come as more details about the alleged attacker, Lakanwal, have emerged.<\/p>\n
Trump administration officials have repeatedly blamed the shooting on lax vetting policies during Biden\u2019s Operation Afghans Welcome, in which tens of thousands of Afghans were relocated to the US following the withdrawal of Western forces from the country.<\/p>\n
US media has reported that Lakanwal was a member of an Afghan force that worked alongside the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Afghanistan, dubbed the \u201czero unit\u201d.<\/p>\n
A friend told The New York Times that Lakanwal had suffered mental health issues related to the unit\u2019s conduct, which Human Rights Watch has said included extrajudicial and civilian killings, among other abuses.<\/p>\n
A government report viewed by the Reuters news agency showed that Lakanawal had applied for asylum in December 2024.<\/p>\n
However, the case was approved in April, months after Trump took office for a second term, with officials noting his work alongside the US in Afghanistan. They found no disqualifying information at the time.<\/p>\n
Advocates have said the Trump administration is using the attack to further supercharge a crackdown on immigration.<\/p>\n
That crackdown, critics say, has targeted legal immigrants and vulnerable populations, including refugees who have sought sanctuary from persecution.<\/p>\n
Responding to the ban on Afghan immigration processing on Thursday, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said \u201ccollective punishment is never justified\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople fleeing violence, persecution, and instability deserve protection and due process \u2014 not to be vilified for the alleged acts of one person,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n
The Afghan-American Foundation called on elected leaders and media to respond responsibly.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollow the facts, resist fear, and ensure that this tragedy is not used to divide communities or break apart the ties that bind us,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC \u2013\u00a0A man who allegedly attacked two National Guard members in the United States capital has been charged with murder after one of his victims died from her wounds. The updated charges were announced on Friday by Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for Washington, DC. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}