President Donald Trump said everyone who arrived in the U.S. from Afghanistan under the Biden administration must be “reexamined” in light of the Wednesday shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members who were deployed to Washington, D.C.

Why It Matters

Thousands of Afghans arrived in the United States after the Islamist Taliban recaptured the country in 2021, as U.S. forces were withdrawing after two decades of the “war against terrorism” launched after the 9/11 attack on the United States.

Many of the new arrivals had worked with U.S. troops during their two-decade presence in Afghanistan, as interpreters, fixers and in other support capacities, and as a result, faced persecution from the Taliban after they defeated a U.S.-backed Afghan government and seized control of the c

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