MS NOW Reports Afghan Nationals 'Extremely Worried' Trump Will Kick Them Out of US After DC Shooting

Source: MEDIAite

Nov 29th, 2025, 6:43 pm


MS NOW’s David Noriega reported Afghan nationals are “extremely worried” President Donald Trump will kick them out of the U.S., days after an Afghan national shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.

Noriega, during a segment on The Weekend: Primetime on Saturday, reported live from Bellingham, Washington, where the suspected D.C. shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, had been living. He said the “small community” of Afghans in the neighborhood are terrified they could be sent packing, after the Trump Administration halted “all immigration requests” from Afghanistan following the attack.

“The concern is that for Afghan nationals specifically, the administration could go further,” Noriega said. “They could actually preemptively terminate these asylum proceedings, which would render these people extremely vulnerable to detention, to deportation, likely to third countries, because deportation flights don’t happen at this moment directly to Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Those third countries could in turn, theoretically, deport them to Afghanistan.”

Noriega said the Taliban would put a “target” on the back of those Afghans, if they returned home, because many worked with the U.S. government.

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