US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday (27) that his administration will work to permanently suspend immigration from all “Third World countries” to allow the American system to fully recover.
“I will permanently suspend immigration from all Third World countries to allow the American system to fully recover, I will cancel all millions of illegal admissions approved by Biden,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The leader criticized immigrants for causing overload on United States systems.
The Republican leader promised to end all federal benefits and subsidies for “non-citizens.”
He added that he “will denaturalize immigrants who harm domestic tranquility and deport any alien who is a public charge, a security risk or incompatible with Western civilization.”
The American president’s speech comes after the death of a woman on Thursday (27), who was shot near the White House in a shooting attack that, according to investigators, was carried out by an Afghan citizen.
Washington shooting
On the eve of Thanksgiving, a gunman opened fire and seriously injured two National Guard members in Farragut Square in Washington, D.C. — a tourist area located near a busy transportation hub and the White House.
Sarah Beckstrom, one of the officers hit in the shooting, died on Thursday (27).
According to police sources, the two National Guard members exchanged gunfire with the suspect before being shot.
Sources said the suspect was hit by gunfire and taken from the scene on a stretcher.
HAS CNNauthorities said the The shooter’s initial identification matches Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a man from Washington state who appears to have immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan in 2021.
The police officers who were shot were part of the National Guard troop that has been in the federal capital since August this year, as part of an action to repress crime promoted by American President Donald Trump.
After the shooting, the Republican leader called for 500 additional federal agents to be sent to Washington.
According to the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, the action “will strengthen our resolve to ensure that Washington, DC, is a safe place.”
