The ministry confirmed that the processing of all immigration requests involving Afghans will be halted indefinitely. “The Trump administration is also reviewing all asylum cases approved under the Biden administration, which failed to screen these applicants at scale,” the statement said.

President Donald Trump has described the shooting as an act of terror. He called the perpetrator an “animal” who was brought to the US by the government of his predecessor. The father of one of the shot guards told The New York Times newspaper that his daughter was fatally injured. “She won’t recover.”

According to American media, the 29-year-old Afghan man was a member of a special counter-terrorism unit at the time. He was able to go to the US with a resettlement program for Afghan allies.

This was a consequence of the rapid American withdrawal and the takeover by the Taliban in August 2021. It was a hurried operation that brought approximately 70,000 Afghans to the US. He arrived in September 2021. According to the Reuters news agency, the asylum procedure would not have started until 2024 and asylum was reportedly granted to him in April this year when Trump had already been president for months.

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