Vance’s past warnings reignite after Afghan national named as suspect in DC Guard shooting
Vice President JD Vance has long cautioned about the U S refugee vetting process dating back to the U S withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in and the refugees who came afterward Now Vance s previous remarks on the matter are resurfacing after two National Guard troops were shot in Washington Wednesday Law enforcement personnel identified the shooting suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal who entered the U S legally in under the Biden administration's Operation Allies Welcome initiative that sought to help resettle Afghan refugees in the U S In Vance posted a video to social media in response to then-Sen Ben Sasse R-Neb who argued that the U S had an obligation to assist refugees seeking to depart Afghanistan Yes let s help the Afghans that helped us but let s ensure that we re properly vetting them so that we don t get a bunch of people who believe they should blow themselves up at a mall because somebody looked at their wife the wrong way Vance a Marine Corps veteran revealed in the video clip ALLEGED DC SHOOTER ENTERED US UNDER AFGHAN RESETTLEMENT PUSH MAYORKAS VOWED WOULD BE DONE SWIFTLY AND SAFELY' Vance also claimed that a Pew Research Center survey unveiled that four in Afghans believe suicide bombing is justified to protect Islam Fox News Digital could not independently confirm the existence of the poll However Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty an American state-funded media organization announced on the poll in with the same statistics Vance s office did not right now respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital Afghanistan's top religious leaders that make up the Afghan Ulema Council have previously issued Islamic rulings to ban suicide attacks and have claimed such attacks aren't in alignment with Islamic teachings More just now Vance voiced similar concerns in an interview with CBS s Margaret Brennan in January where he disclosed that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country WHO IS THE DC NATIONAL GUARDSMEN SHOOTING SUSPECT WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT AFGHAN NATIONAL RAHMANULLAH LAKANWAL Specifically Vance pointed to an Afghan national Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi who at the time had been charged for allegedly planning a terrorist attack on or around Voting process Day in Since then Tawhedi pleaded guilty to two terrorism-related charges in June Tawhedi and his co-conspirator Abdullah Haji Zada also from Afghanistan were arrested on Oct after they purchased firearms and ammunition from undercover FBI agents according to the Justice Department Court documents claim that the two purchased two AK- rifles rounds of ammunition and magazines with the intent to conduct a mass-casualty attack within the U S Zada was sentenced earlier in November to years in federal prison Vance referenced his remarks from Wednesday after the shooting in Washington and signaled future action would emerge to crack down on the vetting process for refugees I remember back in criticizing the Biden strategy of opening the floodgate to unvetted Afghan refugees Vance disclosed Wednesday Friends sent me messages calling me a racist It was a clarifying moment LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONDING AFTER NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS SHOT NEAR WHITE HOUSE A great number of of our voters will demand not just words but action and this is an entirely appropriate response Vance reported Wednesday We will first bring the shooter to justice and then we must redouble our efforts to deport people with no right to be in our country U S Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom died Thursday due to injuries from the Wednesday shooting and U S Air Force Staff Sgt Andrew Wolfe remains in critical condition U S Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro disclosed Fox News Digital first released that Lakenwal partnered with the U S administration including the CIA as a member of a partner force in Afghanistan DETAILS EMERGE ON CIA UNIT ALLEGED NATIONAL GUARD SHOOTER SERVED WITH IN AFGHANISTAN In response to the shooting Trump announced in a Thursday social media post that he would permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries Additionally the head of U S Citizenship and Immigration Services Joseph Edlow stated Thursday that in accordance with orders from Trump he has directed a full scale rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern The White House did not provide additional information regarding which countries would be impacted and referred Fox News Digital to Trump s social media post Fox News Brooke Singman contributed to this overview
