President Donald Trump announced late Thursday his administration will “permanently pause” migration from all “Third World Countries,” after two National Guardsmen were shot near the White House by an Afghan national, killing one of them.
West Virginia Army National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died Thursday from wounds sustained in Wednesday’s attack. She and Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe were shot in the brutal attack allegedly carried out by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who entered the country in September 2021 after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Wolfe remains in critical condition.
“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country,” Trump wrote in a late Thursday Truth Social post.
Trump added that he would end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens who “undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”
Lakanwal — who had worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA — arrived in the U.S. in 2021 as part of the Biden administration’s “Operation Allies Welcome,” which resettled Afghans who had assisted American forces. He applied for asylum in 2024, and the Trump administration granted it in April 2025, according to Reuters.
The suspect shouted “Allahu akbar!” before opening fire with a revolver, independent journalist Julio Rojas reported.
As of December 2024, over 180,000 Afghans had been resettled in the country since the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, according to the State Department.
“Hundreds of thousands of people poured into our Country totally unvetted and unchecked,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We will fix it, but will never forget what Crooked Joe Biden and his Thugs did to our Country!”
Following the shooting, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the “processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals” would be paused “indefinitely.”
USCIS also said Thursday it would conduct a full-scale reexamination of all green cards issued to people from 19 countries “of concern” at the president’s direction. The agency addede in a subsequent statement that when vetting migrants from those countries, it will consider “negative, country specific factors,” including whether the country is able to “issue secure identity documents.”
At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern.
— USCIS Director Joseph B. Edlow (@USCISJoe) November 27, 2025
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