TRUMP SLAMS ASYLUM DOORS SHUT! President freezes all migrant pleas “for a long time” post-D.C. Guard shooting โ critics scream dictatorship, but is this his border wall 2.0? ๐ซ๐
The ink wasn’t even dry on the 2025 headlines when President Donald Trump turned a gut-wrenching tragedy into a political sledgehammer. On November 28, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwalโhimself
a former CIA asset who fled Taliban reprisalsโallegedly gunned down National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, near the White House, critically wounding Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24. By Thanksgiving, Trump
was on a hotline with troops, branding it a “terrorist attack” by a “savage monster.” By Friday, the hammer dropped: an indefinite freeze on all asylum decisions, no exceptions.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow announced the halt, citing the need for “maximum vetting.” The State Department followed suit, pausing visas for Afghan passport holders.
Trump’s rhetoric escalated, vowing to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries” to “terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem piled on, claiming Lakanwal was “radicalized in the U.S.”โdespite his vetting under both
Biden and Trump’s administrations. Lakanwal entered via Operation Allies Welcome in 2021 and got asylum in April 2025. Now facing first-degree murder charges, his case has become the flashpoint for a policy nuke.
Critics are howling “dictatorship.” The UN’s refugee chief warns of breaching the 1953 Refugee Convention, while groups like AfghanEvac decry collective punishment. Democrats like Sen. Mark Kelly call it “comical” blame-shifting to Biden. But Trump’s base cheers it as Border
Wall 2.0โvirtual, ruthless, and unbreachable. No more “stupid” reporters questioning vetting; just a locked door “for a long time,” as Trump told Air Force One press on Sunday. Is this security or scorched-earth xenophobia?
One thing’s clear: in Trump’s America, one shooter’s shadow eclipses thousands of legitimate pleas. The courts will decide if it’s constitutional; history, if it’s humane.
