Senator Mark Kelly says Trump’s response to National Guard shooting is incredibly revealing

Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) weighed in on President Donald Trump’s intensification of immigration repression following the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington, DC, in an ambush linked to an Afghan national.

Appearing Sunday in “Meet the press” host Kristen Welker questioned what Kelly thought about Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defending Trump’s decision to “permanently pause migration from all third world countries.”

“Well, let me start by saying that what happened to the two guards, Andrew Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom, is horrible,” the Arizona senator said of the victims. “And it shouldn’t happen. And I’m praying for him and his family. It was a horrible, horrible thing.”

Beckstrom died Thursday and Wolfe is in critical condition.

Trump’s decision came after Wednesday’s shooting just blocks from the White House. After the suspect arrested in the shooting was identified as a 29-year-old Afghan national.who had moved to the United States to serve in a special CIA-backed Afghan army unit, the Trump administration said it was suspending all asylum decisions.

Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal faces charges of assault with intent to kill while armed and possession of a firearm during a violent crime.

Federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro said last week that the charges could be improved later, saying, “We are praying that they survive and that the highest charge does not have to be first degree murder. But make no mistake, if they don’t, that will certainly be the charge.”

Noting that “there needs to be an investigation and accountability,” Kelly stated that the Trump administration is sending a “message that they do not want people of color to come to the United States” with their move to suspend immigration from developing countries to the United States.

Calling the Trump administration’s actions “disturbing,” Kelly told Welker that the United States “has always welcomed people who are struggling, who are fleeing hunger and violence.”

He added: “And changing that would be a fundamental change in the fabric of our nation.”

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In a Truth Social post on Thanksgiving, Trump announced that he was taking his aggressive immigration policy to the next level after National Guardsman Beckstrom died due to the shooting.

“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World countries to allow the US system to fully recover,” the commander in chief wrote in the Nov. 27 post.

Trump also took aim at former President Joe Biden for all of his “unlawful admissions” during his predecessor’s presidency, vowing to “end all millions” of them.

In a separate interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Noem told Welker that the administration believes Lakanwal, who came to the United States in 2021 during the Biden administration, has been “radicalized since he’s been here in this country.” Lakanwal was granted asylum during the Trump administration.

“We believe it was through connections in his community and home state, and we will continue to speak with those who interacted with him,” Noem added.

The GOP secretary also took aim at Biden when asked about the vetting process for approving his asylum claim during the Trump administration, arguing that “the vetting is done when they enter the country, and that was completely abandoned under the Joe Biden administration.”

Watch Kelly’s appearance on “Meet the Press” below.

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