Trump Administration Reportedly Approved National Guard Shooting Suspect's Asylum Application: CNN

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4. On my shortest of short lists of what I hate most about the Trump admin is when Afghans who helped us

militarily and provided intelligence and risked all should they be exposed -- and then the Trump admin deports them. Or doesn't give them asylum. This after the U.S. have been making promises all along that we would take care of them. I don't have any links right now to these stories, but I've read them over the past several months and I am extremely very appalled by them.

Naturally that means that in the future, people who might assist us won't believe our promises and so don't help us.

I did see this article today:

US pauses Afghan immigration requests after National Guard shooting, USA Today, 11/27/25
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-pauses-afghan-immigration-requests-after-national-guard-shooting/ar-AA1RdCKn

Unfortunately this is an endlessly long article, but here is one excerpt

Advocacy group: Shooting should not be used to 'diminish an entire community'
Shawn VanDiver, the president of #AfghanEvac, said the organization is "deeply saddened by the tragic attack" in D.C. He noted that the group supports the suspect "facing full accountability and prosecution under the law."

"We reject and condemn anyone who uses, or seeks to use, violence, and we stand with every American who is horrified and saddened by this crime," VanDiver said in a statement. "There is no excuse — no context, no grievance, no ideology — that justifies the actions of the shooter."

VanDiver also underscored that the suspect’s actions should not be "used as an excuse to define or diminish an entire community."

"Afghan immigrants and wartime allies who resettle in the United States undergo some of the most extensive security vetting of any population entering the country," VanDiver said. "As with any serious crime, authorities will examine how this happened and whether any systems failed — and we support a fact-based review. But nothing we learn will change the simple truth that this individual alone is responsible for his actions."

#AfghanEvac is an advocacy group and coalition that helps resettle Afghans who assisted the U.S. government and military in Afghanistan.