The US Citizenship and Immigration Service announced on Wednesday night (26) that it has indefinitely suspended the processing of all immigration applications related to Afghan citizens, after two National Guard soldiers were shot and seriously injured in Washington.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated that it was “a terrorist act”, claiming that the suspect came from Afghanistan in 2021.
Late in the evening, the US Department of Homeland Security as Rahmanullah Lakanwal. THE CNN previously reported that he requested asylum in 2024, which was granted by the Trump administration in April this year.
“The safety and security of our homeland and the American people remains our singular focus and mission,” the agency said in a Facebook post.
The move comes after Trump said, in a speech earlier in the evening, that all Afghan immigrants entering the country would be re-examined.
The Trump administration was already in the process of re-interviewing Afghan immigrants admitted to the US during the Biden administration, the report said. CNN earlier this week, according to an internal memo and a source familiar with the plans.
Trump administration officials have repeatedly argued that the last administration did not sufficiently vet people entering the country.
(With information from Reuters)
