On the night before Thanksgiving, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan immigrant who had served with the CIA in the war against the Taliban regime, shot two members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington, D.C. (One of them, Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, later died of her injuries; the other, Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, was critically injured but is likely to recover.)

In his comments on the tragedy, Donald Trump called Afghanistan a “hellhole on earth” and announced a halt to all Afghan immigration, along with renewed vetting of all Afghans admitted during Joe Biden’s term in office. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller later posted that immigration does “not just [import] individuals. You are importing societies… migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors,

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