WASHINGTON — The Trump administration paused asylum applications filed by migrants inside the United States, the latest change to come out of the government’s review of the immigration system in the wake of a shooting of two National Guard members.

The pause affects affirmative asylum applicants, or people who apply for protection with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers. In this asylum process, applications must be filed within a year of when migrants arrive in the country.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghan man whom authorities identified as the one who shot two National Guard members in Washington on Wednesday, obtained asylum in April, according to three people with knowledge of the case who were not authorized to speak publicly. It was not clear wheth

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