After the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington last week allegedly by an immigrant from Afghanistan, President Donald Trump made a post on his Truth Social network that has taken this administration’s anti-immigration animus to a disturbing new level — not only explicitly attacking legal immigration, especially from “Third World” countries, but issuing a call for “reverse migration” that echoes white nationalist rhetoric.

The shooting raises painful issues beyond the tragedy itself which took the life of Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and left another West Virginia Guardsman, Andrew Wolfe, 24, fighting for his life. The accused perpetrator, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was admitted into the United States in 2021 because he aided U.S. troops during our war effort in Afghanistan. While there

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