Chapter 1: What led to the shooting of National Guard members in Washington, D.C.?
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Heartbreak over the holidays. One of the two National Guard members shot in the ambush attack near the White House has passed away.
In the days since an immigrant from Afghanistan gunned down two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C.
In response to that shooting, President Trump is ordering a review of all Afghan nationals in the U.S.
He says he has halted all asylum decisions after the ambush attack on the two National Guard members.
President Trump has ordered a sweeping new crackdown on immigration.
He's also promising to expel millions of immigrants already here, revoking their legal status.
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Chapter 2: Who is Rahmanullah Lakanwal and what is his background?
Yeah, this was clearly good news for him to get asylum, to have a chance to remain in the United States, to gain a green card, to gain U.S. citizenship. He was on that pathway.
But the next thing we know is that he decides to drive from Bellingham, Washington, all across the country to Washington, D.C., where he finds himself in the downtown of the city about a block or two from the White House building. This is an area that has a lot of people going through it, and there are restaurants and coffee shops.
And he is walking on the sidewalk near a bus stop where he comes across two National Guard members from West Virginia, Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old, and Andrew Wolfe, a 24-year-old. And Mr. Lockenwald decides to pull out his gun and shoot both of them multiple times. As part of that gunfire, he himself takes on shots, and he is down on the ground.
These shots were heard by colleagues here at the New York Times. Our bureau is very close to the site of this shooting. And just a day later, we found out that One of the guard members, Ms. Beckstrom, had died from her gunshot wounds.
And suddenly all of these dramas are colliding. The war in Afghanistan, which Trump loathed as a forever war, and his use of National Guard across American cities. It's all colliding, and it's a very strange moment.
Yeah, definitely. And you can see how for President Trump, this is something that he personally is tied to. And for him, I think it really confirms a lot of the claims that he's made in the past, a lot of his worst fears that an immigrant from a far-flung country would come here and shoot two U.S. military members near the White House.
And I think that's really reason for him and in his mind and his advisor's mind to undertake a crackdown on the immigration system that's unlike anything that we've seen this year.
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Chapter 3: How did the U.S. immigration system respond to the shooting?
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So, Hamid, describe what happens to the immigration system in the days since this shooting and how the Trump administration has explained those actions.
And they're telling top Trump administration officials
29-year-old Afghan who entered the United States under Biden's Operation Allies Welcome, a program following the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. This is what happens.
Including U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
This individual is in this country for one reason and one reason alone, the failure to vet in any way, shape or form. This individual and countless others
The FBI director, Kash Patel. He was flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021 on those infamous flights that everybody was talking about. Nobody knew who was coming in. Nobody knew anything about it. His status was... And President Trump himself.
This shooting was the result of a series of Biden administration failures, not only in the way that they ended the war, which President Trump has often criticized, but in the way that they let these Afghans, including Mr. Lackawall, into the country without, in their words, the necessary vetting.
Does the White House point to anything specific as they're critiquing the vetting process? Because of course, as you told us a little bit earlier in this conversation, it's the Trump administration that grants that final asylum.
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