President Donald Trump pledged to "permanently pause migration" from what he called "poorer nations" in a strongly-worded social media post on Thanksgiving night.

The comments came in the wake of a shooting on Wednesday that wounded two National Guard members patrolling Washington, D.C., one of whom later died.

A 29-year-old Afghan national who reportedly worked with the CIA during the Afghanistan War has been charged in connection with the incident.

In his post on the Truth Social platform, Trump claimed that "most" immigrants to the United States "are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels."

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