The United States immigration authorities announced on Friday that they would continue to make decisions regarding all asylum applications for the time being.
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In a post on X on Friday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that the State Department had “paused visa issuance for ALL individuals traveling with Afghan passports.”
Authorities named Afghan national Rahmanaullah Lakanwal as the main suspect in the Washington, DC shooting that left one National Guard member in critical condition on Wednesday.
Rubio claimed that protecting our country and our people is the top priority for the United States.
The State Department under President Trump has stopped issuing visas to ALL travelers using Afghan passports.  ,
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Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe, both of whom were patrolling close to the White House, are accused of being attacked by Lakanwal in an unprovoked attack by Lakanwal.
The Trump administration confirmed on Thursday night that 24-year-old Wolfe is still in critical condition while 20-year-old Beckstrom passed away from her injuries.
Lakanwal worked for the spy agency in Afghanistan before immigrating to the US shortly after the Western forces backed out of the nation in 2021, according to the CIA.
The charges against Lakanwal have been upgraded to first-degree murder, along with two counts of assault with the intent to kill while armed, according to US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) director Joseph Edlow stated in a separate announcement on Friday that the agency had also put a stop to all asylum applications in the name of “the safety of the American people.”
In a post on X, Edlow wrote that “USCIS has halted all asylum decisions until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and screened to the fullest extent possible.”
According to Trump, Edlow claimed a day earlier that he had ordered “a full, rigorous re-examination of every green card for every alien from every country of concern.”
At Trump’s request, the measures are the most recent in a line of increasing immigration restrictions.
Trump has criticized former President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, including the granting visas to Afghan nationals who worked with US forces in Afghanistan, on numerous occasions in recent days.
Following the US’s exit in 2021, Lakanwal arrived in the US as part of a program from the Biden era called “Operation Allies Welcome.”
Trump declared he planned to suspend immigration from “all Third World countries,” and ordered authorities to re-examine all green card applications from 19 “countries of concern” in a post on his Truth Social platform on Thursday.
Although he did not define the term “Third World,” it is frequently used as a slang term for developing nations in the Global South.
Trump added that he would “remove anyone who is incapable of loving our country or who is not a net asset to the United States.”
He declared, “I will denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquillity, deport any foreign national who poses a public security risk, or is incompatible with Western civilization,” and so on.
Source: Aljazeera
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