Afghans Who Came in Under Biden Must Be Re-Vetted

President Donald Trump addressed the nation’s navy on Thanksgiving Eve and up to date the nation on the horrific terrorist ambush close to the steps of the White House, which has left two West Virginia National Guard members in crucial condition, preventing for their lives. 

President Trump’s deal with was short, but weighted with important data and directives. 

Trump started,

My great fellow Americans. Earlier today, on the eve of the Thanksgiving vacation, two members of the National Guard serving in Washington, D.C. had been shot at point-blank vary in a monstrous, ambush-stye assault just steps away from the White House.

They’d been deputized as half of the most profitable public security and national security mission in the historical past of our nation’s Capitol. The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, which has achieved an unprecedented discount in violent crime and crimes of all sorts.  

President Trump didn’t mince phrases in regards to the nature of this terrorist assault, saying it was not just our navy that was assaulted, but our whole nation.

This heinous assault was an act of evil, an act of hatred, and an act of terror. It was a crime against our whole nation. It was a crime against humanity. The hearts of all Americans tonight are with those two members of the West Virginia National Guard and their households. The love of our whole nation is pouring out for them, and we’re lifting them up in our prayers.

President Trump confirmed experiences that the perpetrator can pay “the steepest price” for his assault on federal officers. He also confirmed that the suspect was introduced in under former President Joe Biden’s humanitarian program after the lethal 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, where supposed Afghan “allies” had been allowed to enter the nation for a period of time, allegedly for their security. 

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As we’re crammed with anguish and grief for those who had been shot, we’re also crammed with righteous anger and ferocious resolve. As President of the United States, I’m decided to guarantee that the animal that perpetrated this atrocity pays the steepest doable price.

I can report tonight that based on the best obtainable data, the Department of Homeland Security is assured that the suspect in custody is a foreigner who entered our nation from Afghanistan, a hellhole on earth. He was flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021, on those notorious flights that everybody was speaking about. Nobody knew who was coming in, no person knew something about it. His standing was prolonged under laws signed by President Biden. A disastrous president, the worst in the historical past of our nation. 

President Trump strongly outlined the price America and Americans continue to pay as a outcome of Biden’s open border insurance policies, and introduced it home to the current fraud and criminality being perpetrated by the Minnesota Somali neighborhood.

This assault underscores the only, best national security risk dealing with our nation. The last administration let in 20 million unknown and unvetted foreigners from all over the world. From locations that you do not need to even know about. No nation can tolerate a risk to our very survival.

An instance is Minnesota, where a whole bunch of 1000’s of Somalians are ripping off our nation and ripping aside that once great state. Billions of {dollars} are misplaced, and gangs of Somalians come from a nation that would not even have a authorities. No legal guidelines, no water, no navy, no nothing. As their representatives in our nation preach to us about our Constitution and how our nation is no good.

President Trump affirmed his resolve to end this insanity brought on by the Biden administration, to re-examine Biden’s Afghan refugee program, and to continue to take all mandatory means to take away unlawful aliens and aliens whose goal is to subvert or defraud America and its residents.

We’re not going to put up with these variety of assaults on law and order by people who should not even be in our nation. We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our nation from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all mandatory measures to make sure the elimination of any alien from any nation who doesn’t belong right here or add benefit to our nation. If they can not love our nation we do not need them.

America will never bend and never yield in the face of terror. And at the same time we won’t be deterred from the mission the service members had been so nobly fulfilling.

Trump also confirmed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s phrases earlier on Wednesday that he had been directed by the president to deploy an extra 500 troops to Washington, D.C.

That is why tonight I can announce that I’ve directed the Department of War to mobilize an extra 500 troops to help shield our Capitol metropolis. We will make America completely secure again and we are going to carry the perpetrator of this barbaric assault to swift and sure justice, if the bullets going in the other direction have not already achieved that. 

The president rounded out his speech, giving honor to the lives and service of the 2 wounded National Guard members and their heroic acts. Trump expressed gratitude for our armed providers, Secret Service, and D.C. Metro Police. Trump ended his remarks with a request for all households to pray for the wounded National Guardsmen and their households. 

During this time of the 12 months when we collect at home with family members, these two Patriots had been sporting the uniform of our nation, patrolling the streets of our Capitol. They had taken a selfless oath to defend our nation against all enemies international and home, and that is precisely what they had been doing when they had been gunned down in a savage assault. 

I would like to specific my extraordinary gratitude to every member of the United States navy who is deployed tonight, at home and overseas. I also need to thank the Secret Service and the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department for their work today.

This Thanksgiving, I ask every household to say a prayer for the 2 great heroes who had been so horribly shot and for their family members. Please, say a prayer.

May God bless them, and consolation them, and could bless and shield the United States of America. Thank you, and good evening.

The President’s full deal with is right here.

WATCH:

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On a associated be aware, this announcement got here in moments after Trump addressed the nation:

Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending additional review of security and vetting protocols.

The safety and security of our homeland and of the American people stays our singular focus and…

— USCIS (@USCIS) November 27, 2025