Former US soldier Ahmad Shah Mohibi reacted to the Donald Trump administration going ballistic against Afghanistan in the aftermath of the DC shooting, in which the suspect was identified as Afghan-origin Rahmanullah Lakanwal, and said Afghanistan is not the problem. Mohibi said the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) for Afghans was created for Afghan and Iraqi interpreters and translators, but it expanded and anyone and everyone were allowed. Lakanwal, however, was allowed entry into the US under Joe Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome program when US withdrew its troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban took over the country. This program was meant to support vulnerable Afghans. Lakanwal also worked for the CIA, it has been claimed. He applied for refugee status in 2024 and was granted by the DonaldTrump administration earlier this year.
Major crackdown on ‘hellhole’ Afghanistan
The Donald Trump administration immediately pulled the plug on Green Card applications from Afghanistan as the president called the country ‘hellhole’. Then the president targeted all third-world countries and said all the immigrants from 19 countries in the US will be re-examined. The list of the 19 countries includes: Afghanistan, Myanmar (Burma), Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela.“My point is just because he (Lakanwal) grabbed a gun and shot our soldiers does not mean the whole of the Afghan population is terrorists and everyone has to be penalized,” Mohibi said adding that it was wrong when in 2021 US soldiers opened gates for all Afghans. ICE can go house to house but even 10 Donald Trumps won’t be able to solve this problem because there is an immigration failure, the former US soldier said. “They don’t know what to do. There is a lottery program, and there is an open border program. Immigration in this country is not a Republican or Democratic problem. It is a broader systematic problem and none of the presidents from Bush to Trump have any clue how to tackle immigration,” Mohibi said.
