On November 27th, 2025, a Wednesday afternoon, two members of the West Virginia National guard were shot in an ambush-style attack. 

 The shooting happened on 17th and I Street NW at the Farragut West Metro stop, a few blocks from the White House. 

The suspect is believed to have been alone and has been identified by the Trump administration as Rahmanullah Lakanwal.  

Lakanwal entered the U.S in 2021. A former colleague of his said that Lakanwal worked for the CIA as a commander in a unit of Afghan special forces who worked directly in support of U.S. and British troops during the two-decade war in Afghanistan.  

CIA director John Ratcliff blames the Biden administration for bringing in an alleged “shooter” to our country.  

“Our citizens and service members deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden Administration’s catastrophic failures. God Bless our brave troops,” Ratcliffe stated.  

“We’ve had a lot of problems with Afghans because we’ve had a lot of them coming in these planes… look at them, there was no checking,” Trump said.  

President Trump now has put an immigration pause on 30 third world countries including Afghanistan, no matter the case.  

“It’s over-generalization and not right” said Maddie Ayoubi, a senior at Tracy High School.  

“I don’t know a lot about politics, but I don’t think it’s right to blame entire countries for one person’s mistake,” said Sara Hashimi, another senior here at Tracy High School.  

President Trump said he doesn’t blame all Afghan Americans for the act but believes there have been “a lot of problems” with Afghans, referring to the hundreds of Afghans’ evacuation during the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in August 2021. 

Immigration lawyers this week reported that some of their clients’ cases, including citizenship ones, have been halted or even canceled.  

Information gathered from New York Times, CBS News and PBS