Federal law enforcement officials arrested an Afghan evacuee in Virginia on Wednesday on allegations that he provided support to ISIS-K, marking the third arrest of an Afghan national brought into the United States through a Biden-era evacuation program within the span of a week.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Jaan Shah Safi in Waynesboro, Va., on suspicion of offering support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan (ISIS-K), according to the Department of Homeland Security.
AFGHAN TERRORIST ARRESTED TODAY JUST MILES FROM D.C. CAME IN UNDER BIDEN.
Today the heroes of @ICEgov arrested Jaan Shah Safi, an unvetted Afghan national who provided support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan (ISIS-K). He also provided weapons to his father who is… pic.twitter.com/NFwiTSqVfb
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 3, 2025
Safi entered the country on September 8, 2021, through Operation Allies Welcome, the mass-parole program created following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“Today, our heroic ICE officers arrested Jaan Shah Safi, a terrorist who provided material support to ISIS-K,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a public statement.
“The Biden administration brought this terrorist into the U.S. under the disastrous Operation Allies Welcome program.”
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Noem also linked Safi’s presence in the U.S. to last week’s fatal shooting of two National Guard service members in Washington, D.C.
“This terrorist was arrested miles from our nation’s capital where our brave National Guard heroes, Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe, were shot just days ago by another unvetted Afghan terrorist brought into our country,” she said.
According to DHS, Safi had applied for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which would have shielded him from deportation, but his application was terminated earlier this year after Noem discontinued TPS for Afghan nationals.
Federal officials also allege that Safi provided weapons to his father, who is described as a commander of an Afghan militia group.
Safi’s arrest follows two other terrorism-related cases involving Afghan nationals admitted under Operation Allies Welcome.
On November 26, Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., killing West Virginia Army National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and critically injuring Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe.
One day before the shooting, Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was arrested in Fort Worth, Texas, for allegedly making bomb threats.
Both men were also paroled into the United States through the same evacuation program.
Federal officials say the Biden-Harris administration admitted nearly 190,000 Afghan nationals into the U.S. during the 2021 withdrawal.
Many of those individuals, the Trump administration has noted, had not been fully vetted before being transported to American soil.
“The Biden administration created one of the worst national security crises in American history,” Noem said Wednesday.
“Biden let into our country nearly 190,000 unvetted Afghan aliens — only determining who they were and their intentions when they were already on American soil.”
Noem said President Trump has directed DHS and other agencies to take steps to address vulnerabilities created by the earlier evacuation process.
“President Trump has been working every day since January 20 to clean up this unmitigated national security crisis,” she said.
Following the National Guard shooting, the administration implemented new restrictions that significantly narrowed asylum eligibility for foreign nationals and halted immigration processing for individuals from 19 countries designated as high-risk.
President Trump also signaled support in late November for ending immigration from Third World countries, citing national security concerns.
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