"Trump, Vice President JD Vance and others in the administration quickly blamed the Biden administration for letting Lakanwal into the US and seized on the case to push for deeper immigration curbs, including halting reviews of Afghan immigration proceedings and ordering a review of those already in the US. That raises the prospect that settlement rights for Afghan allies of US forces may be curtailed."
""We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan 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," Trump said in a recorded video address published by the White House Wednesday."
"On Thursday, Joseph Edlow, the head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, said in a social media post that his agency, under Trump's orders, is conducting "a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern." He didn't name specific countries."
Two National Guard members were critically wounded in an ambush near the White House; the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an Afghan national, was subdued and arrested. Federal authorities launched a sprawling nationwide terrorism investigation and searched the shooting scene as well as homes in Washington state and California. The administration blamed prior admission policies and moved to halt Afghan immigration reviews while ordering reexaminations of immigrants already in the US, raising the prospect of curtailed settlement rights for Afghan allies. US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a rigorous review of Green Cards from countries of concern.
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