State Department pauses Afghan visas after D.C. attack kills Guard member

The State Division has suspended all visas for individuals touring with Afghan passports following an assault on Wednesday in Washington DC on members of the Nationwide Guard.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an Afghan nationwide, was charged with first-degree homicide, amongst different fees associated to the ambush, which has since claimed the lifetime of West Virginia Nationwide Guard Military Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and critically injured U.S. Air Power Employees Sgt. Andreas Wolfe, 24.

Lakanwal was vetted by the CIA in Afghanistan and obtained closing asylum approval underneath President Donald Trump’s administration earlier this 12 months, a number of sources advised Fox Information Digital.

“The Division of State has IMMEDIATELY halted the issuance of visas for people touring with Afghan passports,” the company wrote in an announcement on social media. “The Division is taking all essential steps to guard America’s nationwide safety and public security.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has introduced that the State Division will droop all Afghan passport visas. (Getty Pictures)

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio additionally went to X to share the information.

“President Trump’s State Division has paused the issuance of visas for ALL people touring with Afghan passports,” Rubio wrote in a message. “America has no greater precedence than defending our nation and our individuals.”

The U.S.-based Afghan Allies for Resettlement and Resettlement nonprofit AfghanEvac denounced Friday’s choice, calling the administration’s transfer a “violation of federal regulation.”

“It seems Secretary Rubio is trying to close down Afghanistan’s particular immigrant visa program in direct violation of federal regulation and standing courtroom orders. He’s seemingly performing on the behest of President Trump and Stephen Miller, and there’s no doubt that that is the end result they’ve been in search of for months,” AfghanEvac President Shawn VanDiver stated in an announcement.

“They’re utilizing one violent particular person as a canopy for a coverage they’ve lengthy been planning, and turning their very own failed intelligence companies into an excuse to punish a whole neighborhood and the veterans who served alongside them.”

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Two Nationwide Guard troopers have been shot simply steps from the White Home in Washington DC on Wednesday. Alleged gunman Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been charged with first-degree homicide. (AP Picture/Anthony Peltier; Ministry of Justice)

The brand new coverage comes lower than a day after the media questioned Trump about how the assault may have occurred after a profitable vetting.

“I imply, he went loopy, and that occurs. It occurs too typically with these individuals,” Trump advised reporters at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Florida. ‘There was no management or something. … We have loads of others on this nation, and we will get them out, however they are going cuckoo. One thing is going on to them.’

Trump famous: “In the case of asylum, it’s extremely tough to get them out once they’re flown in. Nevertheless you wish to do it, it’s extremely tough to get them out. However we will get all of them out now.”

Nationwide Guard members Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24, have been shot Wednesday in Washington, DC. Beckstrom died Thursday in a hospital. (United States Legal professional for the District of Columbia; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)

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Joseph B. Edlow, director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Providers (USCIS), additionally introduced Thursday that, at Trump’s course, there could be a “full, rigorous reexamination” of each inexperienced card issued to immigrants from “any nation of concern.”

The 19 international locations thought-about “excessive threat” by the USCIS embody Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.