{"id":156110,"date":"2025-11-27T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156110\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:35:10","slug":"us-stops-processing-afghan-immigration-requests-after-attack-near-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156110\/","title":{"rendered":"US stops processing Afghan immigration requests after attack near White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4JX9WQ2_AFP__20251126__86AP7V6__v1__HighRes__UsCrimeNationalGuard_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"National Guard soldiers stand behind the crime scene tape after a shooting in downtown Washington, DC, on November 26, 2025. Metropolitan Police in Washington said Wednesday they had detained a suspect after two National Guard troops were shot blocks away from the White House. (Photo by Drew ANGERER \/ AFP)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nNational Guard soldiers stand behind the crime scene tape after a shooting in downtown Washington.<br \/>\nPhoto: AFP \/ Drew Angerer\n<\/p>\n<p>The US Citizenship and Immigration Services says it has stopped processing all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals indefinitely, after two National Guard soldiers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/580146\/two-us-national-guardsmen-shot-near-white-house\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were shot and critically wounded<\/a> in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump said that the shooting near the White House was &#8220;an act of terror,&#8221; saying the suspect came from Afghanistan in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows Trump&#8217;s call for his government to re-examine Afghan immigrants who entered the United States when Joe Biden was President.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The protection and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and mission,&#8221; the US Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Guard soldiers stand behind the crime scene tape after a shooting in downtown Washington. Photo: AFP \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-156110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}