The Trump administration has stopped processing Afghan immigration requests following the attack on two National Guard members.
“Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on social media. “The protections and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and mission.”
President Trump said in a statement to Americans that the shooting “underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation.”
“We’re not going to put up with these kinds of assaults on law and order by people who shouldn’t even be in our country,” he said, urging federal agencies to “reexamine every single alien from Afghanistan who has entered our country under Biden and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.”
“America will never bend and never yield in the face of terror, and at the same time, we will not be deterred from our mission.”
The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members is believed to have worked with United States government agencies, according to CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
“In the wake of the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News. “The individual—and so many others—should have never been allowed to come here. Our citizens and service members deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden administration’s catastrophic failures.”
