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America woke up to another preventable tragedy: two National Guard soldiers were ambushed and shot just blocks from the White House in broad daylight, a chilling reminder that our capital is not immune from violence. The scene near Farragut Square left Americans shocked and demanded answers about who was allowed into this country and why our troops were left vulnerable. This was not a random street crime — it was a targeted attack on the very men and women sent to keep order and protect our communities.
Law enforcement quickly identified the suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who entered the United States in 2021 under the chaotic Operation Allies Welcome resettlement program. Reports show he had been living in Washington state before allegedly driving across the country to carry out the attack, exposing glaring gaps in background checks and monitoring. Conservatives have warned for years that rushed evacuation resettlements without rigorous vetting invite catastrophic consequences, and today those warnings have painfully come true.
Within hours the Biden-era open-borders experiment received a direct rebuke: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it would stop processing all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals pending a full security review. This emergency pause is overdue but necessary — the safety of American citizens and our servicemen must come before ideological migration policies. The reckless admissions of 2021 are being exposed as a policy of convenience that prioritized optics over Americans’ security.
On Fox News Live, former Yuma sector Border Patrol chief Chris Clem described this as the “nightmare scenario,” underscoring how porous policy and political softness at the border and with refugee resettlement combine to threaten American lives. Clem’s experience watching enforcement resources gutted and vetting hollowed out gives his warning weight — when seasoned professionals sound alarms, politicians should listen. The elites who cheered open-border gestures must answer for the danger their policies have created.
President Trump rightly called this an act of terror and ordered additional National Guard forces to secure the capital, a decisive response that acknowledges the severity of the failure and prioritizes immediate protection of our troops and citizens. Conservatives support strong, swift action to restore security and to scrutinize the policies that allowed this individual entry into America without adequate oversight. This is not about xenophobia; it is about commonsense national security and accountability for those who put ideology ahead of safety.
Enough of the hand-wringing and open-door lectures from the Left. We need a full, transparent audit of every resettlement and asylum approval issued under the Biden administration, and any policy or official that contributed to these dangerous lapses should be held to account. Law-abiding immigrants who come here legally and love America should not be punished, but neither should the safety of citizens be sacrificed to virtue-signaling. The time for tough, principled conservatism on immigration and border security is now.
Patriotic Americans must demand that our leaders stop apologizing for enforcing the law and start fixing a broken system that has placed our uniformed men and women in harm’s way. Reinforce vetting, secure our borders, and fund the intelligence and law enforcement tools necessary to prevent another ambush on American soil. We owe it to the wounded troops, their families, and every hard-working citizen who expects their government to protect them first and signal second.
