White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that the Trump administration will likely deport the majority of migrants who entered the United States from Third World countries because those nations cannot provide reliable information needed for vetting.
His comments followed a shooting on Wednesday that left one National Guardsman dead and another critically injured.
The alleged gunman is an Afghan national brought into the country under the Biden-Harris administration.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday on X that his administration would “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries” after the attack.
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During an appearance on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Homan said the United States cannot rely on governments in those regions to verify identities or criminal histories.
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“[T]hese Third World nations, they don’t have systems like we do. So, a lot of these Afghanistans, when they did get here and get vetted, they had no identification at all. Not a single travel document, not one piece of identification,” Homan said.
“And we’re going to count on the people that run Afghanistan, the Taliban, to provide us any information [on] who the bad guys were or who the good guys are? Certainly not. And many people need to understand that most terrorists in this world aren’t in any database.”
Homan said the same problem applies to migrants from other countries that lack robust identification systems.
“And the same thing with illegal aliens, the over 10 million that came across the border under Joe Biden. There’s no way to vet these people. You think El Salvador or Turkey or Sudan or any of these countries have the databases or system checks that we have?” he said.
“Do you think the government[s] of China, Russia, Turkey, do you think they’re going to share that data with us even if they did have it? There’s no way to clearly vet these people 100% that they’re safe to come to this country, from these Third World nations.”
In his Thursday post, the president also said he would “terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions” and deport migrants who do not provide value to the United States.
Homan said a large share of those admitted during the Biden years would ultimately be removed.
“I really, truly think that most of them are going to end up being deported because we’re not going to be able to properly vet them,” he said.
🚨 BREAKING: In a huge announcement, Tom Homan says MOST of the 3rd world migrants let in WILL be deported – because it’s not even possible to “vet” them
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“I think most of them will end up being DEPORTED, because we won’t be able to properly vet them.”
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 30, 2025
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” that the administration would also deport individuals with pending asylum claims.
“Will you deport people with pending asylum claims?”@Sec_Noem: “We will if they should be, absolutely. Yes. We are going to go through every single person that has a pending asylum claim.” pic.twitter.com/3puyEdIopl
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 30, 2025
West Virginia Army National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died Thursday from injuries sustained during Wednesday’s shooting.
The second victim, Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, remained in critical condition at the time of publication.
The alleged attacker, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the United States in September 2021 following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
He previously worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA, and was brought into the country under the Biden-Harris administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, which resettled Afghans who assisted American forces.
Lakanwal applied for asylum in 2024. The Trump administration granted the application in April 2025, according to Reuters.
Independent journalist Julio Rojas reported that the gunman shouted, “Allahu akbar!” before opening fire with a revolver.
🚨LE source in D.C. tells me the National Guardsmen shooting suspect is an Afghan national who used a revolver.
A National Guardsman, who was not armed with a firearm, used a pocket knife to stab the suspect. Another Guardsman responded to the gunfire and shot the suspect…
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 26, 2025
As of December 2024, more than 180,000 Afghans had been resettled in the United States following the August 2021 withdrawal, the State Department said.
In the aftermath of the shooting, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced an immediate pause on “all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals” with the suspension remaining in place “indefinitely.”
The agency also said Thursday it would conduct a full reexamination of all green cards issued to individuals from 19 countries identified as “of concern,” following direction from the president.
USCIS said it would consider “negative, country specific factors,” including whether a country can “issue secure identity documents,” when reviewing cases involving nationals of those countries.
National security remains the administration’s top priority. In response to the horrific @USNationalGuard shooting by an Afghan national, USCIS has issued new guidance allowing for negative, country-specific factors to be considered when vetting aliens from 19 high-risk… pic.twitter.com/pAgU0ULdVP
— USCIS (@USCIS) November 27, 2025
