Washington (Pakistan New dot com dot pk) USA decided to reexamine of green card holder from 19 countries for the safety of the nation a day after an attack on National Guard troops near the White House. Authorities have identified the suspect as an Afghan national.
According to details, President Donald Trump has directed the federal agency that oversees legal immigration to the U.S. to conduct a sweeping review of green card holders from what the administration calls countries of concern, the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday.
“At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern,” USCIS Director Joseph Edlow said Thursday afternoon in a statement on X.
Edlow said that protecting the country “remains paramount” and that “the American people will not bear the cost of the prior administration’s reckless resettlement policies.”
Asked for details on which countries are considered “of concern,” USCIS pointed to a June presidential proclamation listing 19 countries “considered deficient with regards to screening and vetting.” Afghanistan is one of the countries on the list, which also includes Haiti, Iran and Venezuela.
According to NBC The administration said shortly after Trump’s remarks that all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals will be halted indefinitely.
Trump’s reaction was posted to his social media platform shortly after the 29-year-old Rahmanullah Laknawal reportedly fired shots killing 20-year-old Sarah Backstrom and critically injuring official Andrew Wolfe.
President Trump alleged that during former President Joe Biden’s tenure immigrants entered America without proper screening.
In his post on the Truth Social platform he said, “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen.”
Additionally, federal benefits will end for all such non-citizens and the citizenship of immigrants will be revoked if they are considered a threat to America. All individuals who “do not align with Western civilisation” will be deported, he added.