By Billal RahmanShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberThe U.S. government will speed up efforts to review the immigration status of “every single person added to this country over the last four years," Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, said on Wednesday.
"What you heard from President Trump, the breaking news here tonight, is that his government is going to accelerate efforts to review every single person added to this country over the last four years," he told Fox News, estimatng that would amount to 20 million migrants. The undocumented immigrant population in the United States reached 14 million in 2023, according to nonpartisan think tank Pew Research Center.
President Donald Trump said earlier on Wednesday that individuals who arrived in the U.S. from Afghanistan during the Biden administration should have their status "reexamined." Trump spoke after it emerged two West Virginia National Guard members deployed in Washington, D.C., had been shot and injured, with an Afghan national named as the suspect.
...“We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from the country who does not belong here, or add benefit to our country. If they can’t love our country, we don’t want them,” President Trump said..
Rahmanullah Lakamal entered the U.S. in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. Lakamal was granted asylum earlier this year under the Trump administration, according to reports from several outlets.
Miller added: "Now if you're an illegal you're out automatically, but everybody else who was brought here refugee-, asylum- status whatever status, as he said, if you're not someone who loves this country if you're not any benefit to this country wer'e going to send you out of this country."
Thousands of Afghans entered the U.S. after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban regaining control in 2021. Many had worked with American forces as interpreters and support staff and were considered at risk of persecution under the new Taliban government.
This is a developing story; updates to follow.
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