Oregon is home to as many as 10,000 Afghan refugees, and advocates say they are living in fear and deep uncertainty as the Trump administration vows an immigration crackdown on Afghans following last Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a West Virginia National Guard member near the White House .

Federal authorities have accused Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who reportedly worked with the CIA during the United States’ two-decade-long military involvement in Afghanistan, of first-degree murder in the death of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20. Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, was also wounded in the attack.

Lakanwal, who had been living in Bellingham, Washington, at the time of the shooting, immigrated to the United States in 2021 during the Biden administration and was grante

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