Joseph Edlow, director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), revealed the order from President Trump<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n X<\/p>\n This content is provided by X, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to X cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> He wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous re-examination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern.”<\/p>\n Asked which countries would be affected, USCIS pointed to a presidential proclamation from June listing 19 countries.<\/p>\n The proclamation sought to “fully restrict” arrivals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.<\/p>\n It also “partially” restricted arrivals from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.<\/p>\n Image: Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal<\/a><\/strong>, 29, has been named as the suspected gunman in this week’s shooting and has been detained.<\/p>\n He worked as part of a CIA-backed unit in Afghanistan, and reportedly came to the States under a programme meant to help Afghans who’d risked their lives assisting US troops in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n He’s thought to have driven thousands of miles to the capital from his home in Washington state, where he lives with his wife and five children.<\/p>\n Attorney general Pam Bondi called him “a lone gunman” who “opened fire without provocation, ambush style”.<\/p>\n Image: President Trump described him as a “savage monster”.<\/p>\n He was granted asylum in April this year, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n One of his victims, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died<\/a><\/strong> of her wounds, while the other, Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n Image: Lakanwal reportedly came to the US under Operation Allies Welcome, a programme enacted by former President Joe Biden after he pulled American forces out of Afghanistan in 2021.<\/p>\n Edlow explictly targeted the previous president as he announced the new green card regime.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong> He wrote on X: “The protection of this country and of the American people remains paramount, and the American people will not bear the cost of the prior administration’s reckless resettlement policies.”<\/p>\n Speaking after the attack, President Trump was even more caustic.<\/p>\n He said: “The suspect in custody is a foreigner, who entered our country from Afghanistan, a hellhole on Earth.<\/p>\n “He was flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021 on those infamous flights that everybody was talking about.<\/p>\n “His status was extended under legislation signed by President Biden – a disastrous president, the worst in the history of our country.”<\/p>\n Spotify<\/p>\n This content is provided by Spotify, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Spotify cookies.
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