Following the November 26 shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members near the White House, in which one service member was killed, and another remains in critical condition, President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new measures to tighten refugee vetting and reevaluate green card holders from multiple nations, focusing intensely on those from Middle Eastern and African countries. The suspected gunman, identified as 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the United States in September 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, the Biden administration’s emergency resettlement program following the Afghanistan withdrawal. Trump declared his intention to “reexamine every single alien from Afghanistan who has entered our country under Biden” and stated the administration would 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,” introducing the term “remigration” as part of his policy framework for potential deportations.
The administration has moved to block green card and visa approvals for nationals from 12 countries in Africa and the Middle East—including Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen—even for individuals already living legally in the United States, based on claims of insufficient identity verification and security data sharing. Additionally, a November 21 memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joe Edlow directed a comprehensive review and re-interview of approximately 200,000 refugees who entered the United States between January 20, 2021, and February 20, 2025, halting all green card applications for this population.
On Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro directly challenged the vetting claims of the Biden administration, declaring: “If you think there was vetting, I have a bridge to sell you,” while describing the chaos at the Kabul airport during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. Pirro stated that the Biden administration “short-circuited the vetting” process and claimed that approximately 90,000 Afghan nationals were admitted without proper background checks, escalating charges against the shooting suspect to first-degree murder. Trump announced the Trump administration has suspended all processing of Afghan refugee and asylum applications “pending further review of security and vetting protocols,” affecting the thousands of Afghan nationals already granted admission into the country.
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