US President Donald Trump called his administration’s suspension of asylum applications a “long-term, indefinite” measure and said there was no deadline for its end.
On Sunday, November 26, while returning to the White House from Florida on private presidential jet, Trump said in response to a question about the duration of the suspension of asylum cases: “We don’t have a time limit on this measure.”
The US president added to reporters: “We don’t want those people (refugees). You know why? Because many of them are no good to us and should not be in our country.”
Trump’s comments come as a 29-year-old Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal shot two National Guard members stationed near the White House on Wednesday, November 26. Two National Guardsmen were wounded in the incident, one of whom died. Lakanwal was wounded in the gunfight and arrested. Federal officials described the attack as “targeted” and said the suspect was not cooperating.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also stressed in a message on his X social network account (formerly Twitter) that the United States has no higher priority than protecting its country and people, and the Trump administration’s State Department has stopped issuing visas to all Afghan passport holders.
In this regard, Joseph Adlow, director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced that the agency had stopped all asylum-related decisions.
Meanwhile, the US Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, has said that the Afghan suspect in the shooting of National Guard members in Washington had previously cooperated with the agency in Afghanistan.
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