DC Bloodshed Exposes Biden’s Border Hangover — and Trump Lowers the Boom
A shooting steps from the White House just triggered the toughest immigration crackdown in decades.
Good Morning, it’s Friday, November 28th, 2025.
Washington is still rattled after two young National Guard members were gunned down in the shadow of the White House — and President Trump responded by ripping open the Biden-era refugee pipeline that let their attacker in. Green cards under review, TPS rolling back, Afghan vetting reopened — this is what cleaning up a predecessor’s mess looks like in real time.
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A DC SHOOTING JUST BLEW OPEN BIDEN’S AFGHAN REFUGEE LEGACY
Trump orders a full sweep of green cards tied to 19 “countries of concern.”
The gut punch: Two National Guard members were shot outside a D.C. metro stop — blocks from the White House — and the suspect is an Afghan national who landed in the U.S. under Biden’s chaotic 2021 “Operation Allies Welcome.” One shooting just blew a hole straight through the old administration’s moralizing about “compassionate resettlement.”
What You Need to Know
The Trump administration is reexamining every green card issued to nationals from 19 high-risk countries. USCIS Director Joseph Edlow said he ordered a “full scale, rigorous reexamination” at President Trump’s direction to undo the “reckless resettlement policies” inherited from Biden.
Why It Matters
This is the first major immigration crackdown tied directly to a national-security incident in 2025.
Conservatives spent years warning that the 2021 Afghan influx was rushed, unvetted, and politically motivated — now there’s blood in the capital proving the point.
The left will call this “xenophobia,” but the receipts point straight back to Biden’s open-door experiment.
The Real Story
The shooter, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the U.S. in September 2021 through Biden’s rushed “Operation Allies Welcome” — the same program conservatives flagged for cutting vetting corners in the chaos of Kabul’s fall.
Trump and Vance wasted no time drawing the line: the incident is proof of what they’ve been saying since day one — America is still cleaning up the mess from Biden’s foreign-policy panic.
Edlow’s move:
Every green card holder from the 19 “countries of concern” is now under review.
Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Haiti, Eritrea, Sudan, Burma, Chad, and others are on the list.
USCIS has already suspended all Afghan national immigration applications pending full re-screening.
AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ will seek the death penalty.
Reports claim Lakanwal previously served in an Afghan elite counterterrorism unit — a detail now under FBI investigation for possible foreign ties or associates inside the U.S.
And this wasn’t happening in a vacuum:
Just two days before the shooting, a leaked memo revealed Trump ordered USCIS to re-interview nearly 200,000 refugees, signaling that protections can be revoked if vetting doesn’t check out. Biden-era shortcuts are finally getting stress-tested — and failing publicly.
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Washington spent four years lecturing Americans about “moral responsibility,” but the moral responsibility no one wants to discuss is the one owed to the two Guardsmen who were shot a stone’s throw from the West Wing.
What They Don’t Want You To See
“I remember back in 2021 criticizing the Biden policy of opening the floodgate to unvetted Afghan refugees… They shouldn’t have been in our country.”
— Vice President JD Vance
Bottom Line
Biden’s refugee gamble didn’t just age poorly — it detonated.
Trump isn’t tightening the screws for optics; he’s signaling the birth of a new “zero-risk tolerance” doctrine.
And for the first time in years, immigration reform is being driven by national security, not activist guilt trips.
“MORE TARGETS”? DEM STRATEGIST MELTS DOWN
Two young National Guard members were shot in D.C., and instead of backing tougher security, Democrats are warning that adding troops would “create more targets.” Yes — that’s the argument now: fewer troops, fewer bullets. Only in 2025.
CNN’s Erica Hill pressed strategist Donte Mills on Trump’s push to deploy 500 additional Guardsmen after the attack. Mills claimed the administration was “using the incident” to justify keeping troops in the streets — even though the two soldiers shot, Sarah Beckstrom (20) and Andrew Wolfe (24), had been sworn in less than 24 hours earlier.
He doubled down: more soldiers simply means “more targets.”
Translation: protect D.C. by… sending fewer people to protect D.C.
Meanwhile, the shooter — Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national — entered the U.S. through Biden’s 2021 Operation Allies Welcome, the same rushed parole program now under fire nationwide. Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed the President immediately ordered 500 more troops into the capital.
Key Quote
“If you add 500 soldiers… it would’ve just been more targets.” — Donte Mills, CNN
Takeaway
Democrats aren’t attacking Trump’s plan — they’re attacking the idea of self-defense itself.
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AFGHAN TERROR, SOMALIA FRAUD & THE CASE FOR TRUMP
America just got a two-for-one reminder that immigration cannot be a social experiment. First: the Somali “Feeding Our Future” scandal — over $300 million in alleged fraud, some of it reportedly funneled straight to Al-Shabaab. Then: an Afghan national, brought here under Biden’s 2021 Kabul evacuation, shoots two National Guard members feet from the White House.
This isn’t Sweden’s grenade-crime arc hitting U.S. shores. It’s worse — because we’ve been warned for a decade, and the political class shrugged. Trump’s move this week to end Somali TPS, reassess Biden-era Afghan arrivals, and crack down on Muslim Brotherhood networks is the first adult step in years toward acknowledging reality: values, vetting, and security matter.
Key Stat
The Minnesota Somali fraud scheme alone involved $300,000,000 in stolen taxpayer funds.
Takeaway
The week’s headlines didn’t just vindicate Trump’s warnings — they exposed how deeply Biden-era migration experiments compromised America’s safety.
Tuberville calls for full ban on Islamic immigration — again
Sen. Tommy Tuberville reignited his 2024 proposal, arguing the D.C. shooting proves the U.S. must halt all immigration from “Islamic nations with terror histories.” The left is already melting down, but Tuberville says it’s “past time to stop importing risk.”
Venezuela signals it may halt deportation flights to the U.S.
Caracas is now threatening to suspend repatriation flights, risking a fresh surge of Venezuelan migrants arriving at the southern border. Trump officials say they’re prepared to escalate diplomatic pressure if Maduro stonewalls.
U.S. college imam caught urging “cutting fingertips” as punishment
A Muslim imam tied to a New England university was exposed for teaching extremist corporal punishments — including cutting off fingertips — in a now-viral recording. The university is scrambling, but critics say this is what happens when campuses “import ideology they don’t understand.”
‘Seditious Six’ Democrat refuses FBI interview
Rep. Chris Deluzio said he has “no plans” to meet with the FBI over an ongoing inquiry into an anti-Trump political group tied to disruptive protests. House Republicans say his refusal “speaks volumes.”
Trump admin set to end protected status for 350,000 Haitian migrants
The administration confirmed TPS for Haitian nationals will expire in February, citing rising gang infiltration and national-security concerns. DHS says a “case-by-case review” will determine who remains eligible to stay.
Thanks for reading The Daily Briefing — the one place where political spin gets shredded before breakfast. What happened in Washington this week isn’t an isolated incident; it’s the bill coming due for years of feel-good immigration experiments sold as “compassion.” And the most dangerous lie in D.C. right now is that America can absorb unlimited risk without consequence.
When a refugee program produces fraud, terror links, and now dead soldiers, that’s not an anecdote — that’s a system failure. And anyone still insisting this is “fearmongering” is advertising they haven’t been paying attention.
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P.S. America’s political class spent years calling Trump’s warnings “racist,” “extreme,” or “un-American.” But this week — Somali fraud, Afghan terror, National Guard casualties — proved exactly what he meant when he said a nation has the right to defend itself. What’s your read? Have you seen the consequences of lax vetting in your own community? I want to hear it.
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