Trump’s latest post on Thursday night went further, pledging to “end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens”. <\/p>\n
The president also blamed refugees for causing the “social dysfunction in America” and vowed to remove “anyone who is not a net asset” to the US.<\/p>\n
The flurry of announcements come after officials said that the suspect in Washington DC shooting, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, came to the US in 2021 under a programme that offered special immigration protections to Afghans who had worked with US forces in the wake of their withdrawal from Afghanistan. <\/p>\n
At the time, the Taliban had taken back control of Afghanistan, raising fears of retribution against those who had co-operated with the US. <\/p>\n
Mr Lakanwal once worked alongside the CIA in Afghanistan, the agency’s director John Ratcliffe has said.<\/p>\n
An official told the BBC’s US news partner CBS that Mr Lakanwal had applied for asylum in 2024 and that his application had been granted earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Trump described the attack as an “act of terror”.<\/p>\n
He had already imposed a travel ban on nationals of Afghanistan – and 11 other countries, primarily in Africa and Asia – earlier this year.<\/p>\n
A number of majority-Muslim countries also faced a travel ban during Trump’s first presidency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump’s latest post on Thursday night went further, pledging to “end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens”.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-598856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115626388045305767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}