Shortly after Trump's announcement, the US government decided to suspend all immigration-related application processes in Afghanistan.
US President Donald Trump has said lax immigration policies are the biggest challenge to national security, following the shooting of two National Guardsmen near the White House.
‘No country can afford to risk its existence like this,’ he said. International media have analyzed Trump’s announcement as a sign that the government will increase surveillance on immigrants in the United States.
Trump has also accused former President Joe Biden of allowing people from other countries to enter the United States easily. He has insulted Afghanistan as hell on earth. He has also insulted the Somali community in Minnesota, who had nothing to do with the National Guard attack. He mocked Somalia as a country without laws, water, and soldiers. Shortly after Trump’s announcement, the US government has decided to suspend all immigration applications in Afghanistan.
The accused had entered the United States to escape the Taliban.
Afghan national Rahmanullah Luckanwal is currently in custody on suspicion of shooting two National Guardsmen stationed near the White House. Rahmanullah Luckanwal, 29, entered the United States from Afghanistan in September 2021 under the ‘Operation Allies Welcome’ plan.
The Taliban captured Kabul in August before the deadline for US troops to leave Afghanistan expired. Since then, those who had helped US troops in the past have been afraid of future Taliban retaliation.
Keeping that risk in mind, a large number of Afghans were resettled in the United States under the ‘
Operation Allies Welcome’
plan. Under this program, the US issued visas to nearly 76,000 Afghans. Most of them were US war aides, diplomats, language translators, etc. Luckanwal entered the US and settled in Washington state under this scheme . Fox News reported that he had assisted various agencies under the US government, including the CIS, while in Afghanistan He had assisted the US-Afghan forces in operations against the Taliban in Kandahar Our citizens and employees should have borne the consequences of this failure of the Biden administration,’ CIA Director John R. Yatcliffe told Fox News
, ‘Since then, the FBI has been investigating Lucknow,’ Fox News reported.
US President Donald Trump has called it an act of terrorism. He said this heinous act is a crime against the entire nation and humanity. After two National Guardsmen were seriously injured in a shooting near the White House, silence fell on the US.
Terrified immigrants
The international media has analyzed the impact of this incident, especially on immigrants. The Trump administration is already taking anti-immigration measures. After the current incident, Trump has indicated that he will be more strict. Trump has already indicated that he will be more strict. In the case of Afghans, he has clearly stated, 'Every alien who came from Afghanistan during the Biden administration must be re-examined.'
Swan VanDiver, president of the Afghan Evacuation in San Diego, has condemned the attack on the National Guard. He has said that the Afghan community living in the United States should not be harmed based on this incident. VanDiver said, 'Afghan immigrants were America's friends during the war. It is not good to denigrate an entire community by linking this individual act or violent incident today.'
