Peloni: Notably, this policy change, which is well warranted and could be argued to have been an important move after Trump first returned to the White House, the reality is that if this policy had been in place for the past 10 months, it wouldn’t have prevented the terror attack in Washington DC. Evicting unvetted migrants from the US is what is called for, millions of them.
Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
The State Department is ordering its posts to stop processing all Afghan national visas, according to an internal document obtained by the Daily Caller.
Two members of the National Guard were shot in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, allegedly by an Afghan national who entered the country in 2021. West Virginia Army National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom died Thursday from wounds sustained in the attack while Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe remains in critical condition. Following the tragedy, Trump called for every alien who entered the country under former President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal to be reevaluated.
The State Department is taking action in line with the president’s words, and it is ordering the cancellation of all pending applications for Afghan national visas, according to the internal document obtained by the Caller.
“The Trump administration has no higher priority than ensuring the safety of Americans and has launched a whole-of-government effort to defend America’s national security,” Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement. “That’s why the State Department took action today to pause visa processing for Afghan nationals to enter the United States in the wake of a horrific terror attack against the National Guard.”
“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 if they can’t love our country, we don’t want them,” Trump said after the shooting.
“America will never bend and never yield in the face of terror, and at the same time, we will not be deterred from the mission the service members were so nobly fulfilling,” he continued.
Trump vowed on Friday in a TruthSocial post to halt migration from all “Third World Countries” in response to the shooting.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly carried out the Wednesday attack, and it has been reported that he previously worked with the U.S. government, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He arrived in the U.S. in 2021 as part of the Biden administration’s “Operation Allies Welcome,” which resettled Afghans who had aided U.S. forces. More than 180,000 Afghans had been relocated and resettled in America since the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, according to a 2024 statement from the State Department.
Lakanwal applied for asylum in 2024 and was granted it in April 2025, Reuters reported, citing documents.
The suspect allegedly shouted “Allahu akbar!” before opening fire with a revolver, independent journalist Julio Rojas reported.
“This heinous assault was an act of evil and an act of hatred and an act of terror. It was a crime against our entire nation. It was a crime against humanity,” Trump said during his Wednesday address.
Editor’s Note: This piece was updated with a statement from the State Department.
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Though at least one Dem who voted for it voiced objections to singling out any particular terror attack.
Let’s see whether the Dems (with a handful of exceptions like Senator John Fetterman) and Rinos in the Senate succeed in blocking it.
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If Fetterman polls badly among Dems, would he run as an independent and could he win?
@Sebastien
It is a good question, but I would argue odds are stacked against him winning without the support of the Dems. He won his seat with the support of the statewide Dem machine, which in PA is the real deciding demographic, no matter what the people (Dems or Reps) really want.
The Dems could literally elect a donkey and the courts would certify the election. The corruption there is so rank and obvious, and Trump has yet to address this issue in any meaningful way that I have noticed to date. Election reform is the key element which will pass the authority of government back to the people, and it is the only real topic on which Trump has to succeed to render America Great Again….