Trump Blasts Biden Refugee Policy After Afghan National Kills National Guardsman

An unvetted Afghan refugee gunned down two U.S. National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House last week, leaving one dead and the other clinging to life. But instead of demanding accountability for the failure that allowed this to happen, corporate media outlets raced to protect President Biden’s reckless refugee policy by fretting about the “backlash” Afghan migrants might face.

The attacker, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the United States in 2021 under Biden’s haphazard “Operation Allies Welcome” program, which opened the floodgates to tens of thousands of Afghans with minimal screening after Biden’s catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal. He shot and killed 24-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and critically wounded Andrew Wolfe in cold blood. Their crime? Wearing the uniform.

Rather than sound the alarm about the national security risks posed by unvetted foreign nationals, outlets like the Associated Press and The New York Times went into full damage control publishing stories about Afghan refugees being “terrified” and “facing xenophobia.” Not about the Americans shot. Not about how Lakanwal was allowed into the country in the first place. But about how Trump’s reaction might hurt refugee “feelings.”

President Donald Trump, who has been warning for years about the dangers of importing unvetted migrants from hostile regions, called out Biden’s failure in no uncertain terms.

“Biden brought in hundreds of thousands of people from Afghanistan totally unvetted and unchecked,” Trump said. “We will pause migration from all Third World countries and **deport any foreign national who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

Instead of reporting this as a wake-up call, the media’s priority was clear:

• The Associated Press ran with: “Refugee groups worry about backlash after shooting of National Guard soldiers in DC.”

• Another AP headline read: “Trump administration plan to review Biden-era refugees sparks worry and uncertainty.”

• The New York Times went full “Trump pounces” mode with: “Trump Uses National Guard Shooting to Cast Suspicion on Refugees.”

But Americans don’t need the media to tell them how to feel. They’re watching innocent service members be gunned down on their own streets while bureaucrats and journalists bend over backward to protect the policies that let it happen.

Even worse? This wasn’t an isolated incident. Just one day earlier, another Afghan migrant Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was arrested for making a terroristic threat, after posting a video about building a bomb to target the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Like Lakanwal, Alokozay was brought into the U.S. through Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome and granted permanent residency in 2022.

The threat isn’t theoretical. It’s here.

Army Ranger veteran and former Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell warned about this back in 2021, sharing a chilling firsthand account from his time in Afghanistan. One interpreter who had spent a year with his platoon turned out to be a double agent working with Iranian bomb-makers. That betrayal cost one American his life and wounded several others.

“We told them this would happen,” Parnell said. “They didn’t listen.”

Now Americans are paying the price again.

Operation Allies Welcome was sold to the public as a mission of honor, rescuing loyal translators and allies. But in the rush to virtue-signal, Biden’s administration abandoned even basic vetting procedures. They opened the gates not just to friends of America, but to enemies hiding in plain sight.

Even as the blood dries in DC, the Biden administration shows no sign of remorse or change. The media, predictably, continues running cover.

Here’s the truth:

• Biden brought over more than 120,000 Afghans during the withdrawal many without documentation or verification of their ties to U.S. forces.

• A 2022 DHS report found that at least 50 evacuees were flagged for potential national security threats, and thousands more were “incomplete or unverifiable.”

• FBI Director Christopher Wray has testified to the rising threat of terrorist plots stemming from border and refugee vulnerabilities.

President Trump is once again left to clean up Biden’s mess. His promise to review and reverse Biden-era refugee policies is not xenophobia it’s common sense.

This latest tragedy is a brutal reminder of what’s at stake. National security isn’t a partisan issue it’s life or death. And the American people are demanding leaders who take that seriously.

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