It’s been reported that the person who shot the national Guard soldiers in DC yesterday was an Afghan national who worked with the CIA and came to the U.S. as part of the evacuation in 2021 and was granted asylum in 2025 by Trump’s DHS.
Nonetheless, the Republicans are losing their minds:
Republicans are dramatically ramping up their anti-immigration rhetoric after the shooting of two National Guard members in D.C. by a suspect who is an Afghan national, with some calling to end Muslim immigration entirely and “deport every single Islamist.”
The Trump administration is already taking steps in that direction by suspending all immigration applications from Afghan nationals — a move even some Republican moderates aren’t fully dismissing.
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- Trump said Wednesday the shooting “underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation,” and that the U.S. “must now reexamine every single alien from Afghanistan who has entered our country under Biden.”
- He added that the administration “must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.”
Some Republicans in Congress want to go much further that just suspending Afghan immigration.
“We must IMMEDIATELY BAN all ISLAM immigrants and DEPORT every single Islamist who is living among us just waiting to attack,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Wednesday in a post on X. The sentiment was similar among House members, with Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) writing: “Deport them all. Now. “We know the solution,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) posted. “Stop importing Islamists. Deport Islamists.”
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is pushing for a vote on his bill to require “recurrent and periodic vetting” of Afghan refugees who came to the U.S. in 2021 and 2022 without certain documentation. He wrote on X: “We must pass my Afghan Vetting Accountability Act to identify and conduct recurrent vetting of evacuees from Afghanistan found not to be properly vetted before entering the United States, so this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!”
I’m pretty sure they’ve just been looking for an excuse to deport Muslims. And now it’s going to happen. At the moment the only people Trump is welcoming to the United States are racist white South Africans and foreigners to do manual labor at his properties.
I’m sure you’ll recall that they also had a total meltdown over the fact that Biden allegedly didn’t bring enough Afghans to the U.S. in 2021:
Many Republican lawmakers have accused Mr. Biden of abandoning the Afghan interpreters and guides who helped the United States during two decades of war, leaving thousands of people in limbo in a country now controlled by the Taliban.
Remember this? They had a fit over Biden failing to bring more Afghan allies back to the U.S. It was a huge deal.
The assessment by the majority on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released late on Sunday, said the Biden administration chose “optics over security” as it oversaw a withdrawal agreement reached by former President Donald Trump and the Taliban in 2020.
Democrats, meanwhile, released their own minority report on the 18-month investigation on Monday, accusing Republicans of shutting them out of the probe and choosing partisan politics over the pursuit of truth.
The Republican report said the Biden administration “had the information and opportunity to take necessary steps to plan for the inevitable collapse of the Afghan government”. Such planning would have allowed Washington to “safely evacuate US personnel, American citizens, green card holders, and our brave Afghan allies”, said the more than 350-page report, titled Willful Blindness.
Now, of course, they are in another Charlie Kirk fugue state looking for blood anywhere they can find it. Sadly, I suspect this is going to be their reflexive response to any violence they can portray as left/foreign/Muslim violence. They have a taste for it now.