Trump orders review of immigrant visas after National Guard attack

The Trump medication connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) said it was reviewing imperishable residency presumption of immigrants from 19 countries, including Afghanistan, successful its latest effect to the shooting of 2 National Guard soldiers adjacent the White House.

The FBI meantime said it had launched an planetary coercion probe arsenic caller details emerged astir the alleged gunman, a 29-year-old Afghan nationalist who had served with U.S. troops successful Afghanistan.

The shooting, which officials described arsenic an "ambush-style" attack, formed a grim shadiness implicit the Thanksgiving vacation and triggered a hard-line, anti-immigrant effect from President Donald Trump.

In a little video connection successful which helium called the shooting an "act of evil," Mr. Trump connected Wednesday (November 26) painted immigrants arsenic an existential menace to nationalist security, portion his medication ordered an contiguous halt to the processing of migration applications from Afghanistan.

"We indispensable instrumentality each indispensable measures to guarantee the removal of immoderate alien from immoderate state who does not beryllium here, oregon adhd payment to our country. If they can't emotion our country, we don't privation them," the President said.

Scrutiny connected migration presumption of each imperishable nonmigratory oregon “Green Card” 

Joseph Edlow, Trump's manager of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), said connected Thursday that helium had ordered a "full scale, rigorous reexamination of each Green Card for each alien from each state of concern."

His bureau aboriginal pointed to a database of 19 countries -- including Afghanistan, Cuba, Haiti, Iran and Myanmar -- facing U.S. question restrictions nether a erstwhile bid from Mr. Trump successful June.

The incidental brings unneurotic 3 politically explosive issues: Trump's arguable usage of the subject astatine home, immigration, and the bequest of the U.S. warfare successful Afghanistan.

Gunned down successful 'brazen' onslaught

Sarah Beckstrom, 1 of the 2 National Guard members shot successful Washington connected Wednesday, has died, U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Thursday (November 27, 2025).

The U.S. lawyer for Washington DC, Jeanine Pirro, said the suspected assailant -- identified arsenic Rahmanullah Lakanwal -- had been surviving successful the occidental authorities of Washington and had driven crossed the state to the nation's capital.

In what she called a "brazen and targeted" attack, Ms. Pirro said the gunman opened occurrence with a .357 Smith and Wesson revolver connected a radical of guardsmen connected patrol connected Wednesday conscionable a fewer blocks shy of the White House.

The fishy was charged with 3 counts of battle with intent to termination -- charges that Ms. Pirro said would instantly beryllium upgraded to first-degree execution if immoderate of the guardsmen died.

Officials said they inactive had nary wide knowing of the motive down the shooting.

CIA manager John Ratcliffe said the fishy had been portion of a CIA-backed "partner force" warring the Taliban successful Afghanistan, and had been brought to the United States arsenic portion of a programme to evacuate Afghans who had worked with the agency.

Mr. Trump has deployed troops to respective cities, each tally by Democrats, including Washington, Los Angeles and Memphis. The determination has prompted aggregate lawsuits and allegations of authoritarian overreach by the White House.

In the aftermath of Wednesday's shooting, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced 500 much troops would deploy to Washington, bringing the full to 2,500. This contempt a national justice past week ordering a impermanent suspension of the deployment connected the grounds that it was apt illegal.

Afghan bequest

The heads of the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security and different elder Trump appointees each insisted that Lakanwal had been granted unvetted entree to the United States due to the fact that of lax asylum policies successful the aftermath of the chaotic last U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan nether erstwhile president Joe Biden.

But AfghanEvac, a radical that helped resettle Afghans successful the United States aft the subject withdrawal, said they acquisition "some of the astir extended information vetting" of immoderate migrants.

The radical noted Lakanwal had been granted asylum successful April 2025, nether the Trump administration, and would beryllium eligible to petition imperishable residency a twelvemonth later.

"This individual's isolated and convulsive enactment should not beryllium utilized arsenic an excuse to specify oregon diminish an full community," said its president, Shawn VanDiver.