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dhs secretary Kristi Noem has made a comprehensive new proposal travel ban At “every damn country that is filling our country with murderers, leeches and entitlement junkies” – without explaining what that actually means or where they are from.
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“Our forefathers built this nation with blood, sweat and an unwavering love of freedom – not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, siphon our hard-earned tax dollars or take away the benefits Americans deserve,” Noem said,
“We don’t want them. Not even one.”
The President later shared his post on his social network Truth Social without comment, while the official DHS couple: “every country.”
Noem’s post appeared in response to this The “targeted” shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members in Washington, DC last week., allegedly by A Former CIA-backed Special Forces operator from Afghanistan Who were granted asylum by the Trump administration in April 2025.
Police arrested Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, originally from a village in Afghanistan’s Khost province, in connection with the crime, and reports indicate he had served in the Afghan army for 10 years with US special forces.
Lakanwal was one of approximately 76,000 people who came to America operations assistant welcomeA Biden-era program aimed at resettling Afghans who helped the US in the fight against the Taliban.
a childhood friend told the new York Times Lacanval worked as a delivery driver to support his wife and five children, but he struggled with PTSD and often turned to marijuana to cope.
Noem said Lakanwal has been “radicalized” within the US “Through connections in his home community and state”, while reports indicate he previously served in a feared US-aligned paramilitary unit often referred to as a “death squad”.
In the wake of the shooting, DHS takes unprecedented new crackdown on legal immigration: Halting all asylum decisions for claimants currently in the US, banning all Afghan travelers, reviewing green cards for people from 19 countries and reviewing all asylum approvals issued under Joe Biden.
Those last two measures would threaten the immigration status of 1.5 million people currently seeking asylum and more than 50,000 people who were granted asylum during Biden’s tenure. according to the new York Times,
In another Truth Social post, Trump pledged “To permanently halt migration from all Third World countries”, again without specifying.
The same 19 countries – mostly in the Middle East and Africa, as well as some Latin American countries such as Venezuela and Haiti – They are already subject to the travel ban issued in June,
DHS and the White House did not immediately respond to questions. Independent,