"Critics have described the recent derogatory remarks as alarming, awful, dehumanizing and vile. Just hours after the shooting, and after authorities reported that the suspect had arrived in the US in 2021 through a Biden-era evacuation program for Afghans and was later granted asylum under the Trump administration, the US president declared: We must now re-examine every single alien from Afghanistan who has entered our country under Biden."
"We will first bring the shooter to justice, and then we must redouble our efforts to deport people with no right to be in our country, he said. Several other Republican lawmakers went even further. The US senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama called via X for an immediate ban on all ISLAM immigrants and to DEPORT every single Islamist who is living among us just waiting to attack, while Texas congressman Chip Roy urged the administration to stop importing Islamists."
Donald Trump and senior administration members escalated hostile language toward immigrants after an Afghan man was named a suspect in a shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC. Trump made sweeping statements about Afghans and insulted Somali immigrants, calling them garbage and saying their country of origin stinks. Critics labeled the remarks dehumanizing and vile. Trump demanded re-examination of Afghans who entered under Biden and linked the suspect to a 2021 evacuation program. Republican lawmakers called for deportations and bans on Islamist immigrants. USCIS suspended Afghan-related immigration requests pending security reviews, and Trump vowed stricter migration controls.
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