The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) announced late Wednesday that it has stopped processing all immigration requests from Afghan nationals following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.

The suspect in the shooting, identified by multiple media outlets as Rahmanullah Lakanwal , 29, is an Afghan national who came to the U.S. in 2021 during the administration of former President Joe Biden under a program called Operation Allies Welcome.

President Donald Trump backed those reports in a video statement released by the White House on X Wednesday night, saying, "The suspect in custody is a foreigner who entered our country from Afghanistan , a hellhole on earth. He was floated by the Biden administration in September 2021 for those

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