"The death of Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has all the ingredients needed to start a new culture war. It doesn't help that some Democrats and prominent left-leaning writers have blamed the Guard deployments for her death, as if needlessly sending troops into a major city is asking for a fatality. It isn't. Beckstrom should not have died, and her blood is not on Trump's hands."
"But this sort of nuance is getting lost in a tide of anti-immigrant resentment since the accused shooter is an Afghan refugee who arrived in the U.S. through an asylum program overseen by the Biden administration. It doesn't matter to Trump and his ilk that the refugee had worked with the CIA, having been roundly vetted, and that the current administration was the one to approve his asylum application."
"Perhaps even more ominously, Trump declared in a Truth Social post that he would "permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries" and "denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquillity." Trump provided no further details, and it's unclear whether he will follow through. After all, his second term has been a mixture of terrifying, bombastic rhetoric that does become reality - the National Guard deployments, the ICE raids - and threats that don't, like the supposed annexation of Greenland."
Two National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, D.C., and the death of Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has become a flashpoint in an escalating political and cultural conflict. Some commentators blamed the Guard deployments for her death, but the shooting has primarily triggered anti-immigrant resentment because the accused is an Afghan refugee who entered through a vetted asylum program. The administration announced new vetting guidance for immigrants from 19 "high-risk" countries. President Trump proposed deporting the suspect's family, targeted unrelated communities, and suggested sweeping migration pauses and denaturalization measures, mixing enacted enforcement with bombastic rhetoric.
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