More than 40% of those brought to the U.S. under Operation Allies Welcome were eligible Special Immigrant Visas because they worked with the U.S. in some way over the prior two decades, or were related to someone who did. Others were allowed to resettle in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The Trump administration is promising a stricter anti-immigration agenda after an Afghan national was being charged in the shooting of two National Guard members.

Court records show that Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat.

An Afghan suspected terrorist “disappeared” roughly two weeks before he allegedly ambushed and shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington, DC, one of his neighbors revealed. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, lived a quiet life in Bellingham, Washington, but struggled to find work, neighbor Mohammad Sherzard told the Associated Press.

A fatal shooting near the White House has led to an Afghan evacuee being charged with first-degree murder. The attack, which killed one National Guard member, has sparked renewed political debate as President Trump vows a sweeping pause on migration from “Third World” countries.

The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Americans who helped resettle Afghan allies in the US following the Biden administration’s 2021 disastrous withdrawal from Kabul are heartbroken and angry about the “betrayal” of