U.S. stops processing Afghan immigration requests after attack near White House

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said precocious connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025) it has stopped processing each migration requests relating to Afghan nationals indefinitely, aft 2 National Guard soldiers were shot and critically wounded successful Washington.

President Donald Trump said that the shooting adjacent the White House was "an enactment of terror," saying the fishy came from Afghanistan successful 2021.

The determination follows Trump's telephone for his authorities to re-examine Afghan immigrants who entered the United States erstwhile Joe Biden was President.

"The extortion and information of our homeland and of the American radical remains our singular absorption and mission," the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said successful a station connected X.

A fishy who was successful custody besides was changeable and had wounds that were not believed to beryllium life-threatening, according to a instrumentality enforcement authoritative who was not authorized to sermon the substance publically and spoke to AP connected information of anonymity.

The 29-year-old suspect, an Afghan national, entered the U.S. successful 2021 done Operation Allies Welcome, a Biden medication programme that evacuated and resettled tens of thousands of Afghans aft the U.S. withdrawal from the country, officials said.

The inaugural brought astir 76,000 radical to the U.S., galore of whom had worked alongside U.S. troops and diplomats arsenic interpreters and translators. It has since faced aggravated scrutiny from Mr. Trump and his allies, legislature Republicans and immoderate authorities watchdogs implicit gaps successful the vetting process and the velocity of admissions, adjacent arsenic advocates accidental it offered a lifeline to radical astatine hazard of Taliban reprisals.

The suspect, who has been surviving successful Washington state, has been identified by instrumentality enforcement officials arsenic Rahmanullah Lakanwal, but authorities were inactive moving to afloat corroborate his background, 2 instrumentality enforcement officials and a idiosyncratic acquainted with the substance said. The radical could not sermon details of an ongoing probe and spoke to The Associated Press connected information of anonymity.

On Wednesday night, successful a video connection released connected societal media, President Donald Trump called for the reinvestigation of each Afghan refugees who entered nether the Biden administration.