The madman accused of shooting two National Guard troops in Washington, DC, last week was likely \u201cradicalized\u201d after he came to the US, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem revealed.<\/p>\n
Noem also vowed that the Trump administration will carry out mass deportations of immigrants from \u201cthird world\u201d countries in response to the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She added the asylum process will only be reopened after officials clear up the backlog of cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kristi Noem believes the suspect in the National Guard shooting could have been radicalized in the United States. ABC News<\/p>\n
\u201cI will say we believe he was radicalized since he\u2019s been here in this country,\u201d Noem told NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on Sunday. \u201cWe do believe it was through connections in his home community and state, and we\u2019re going to continue to talk to those who interacted with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far we\u2019ve had some participation,\u201d she added. \u201cWe will never allow this to continue to happen in our country, allow individuals who came to our country that were unvetted by Joe Biden, allowed to run free and loose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noem stressed that migrants with pending asylum claims aren\u2019t off limits for deportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an Afghan national who is the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC. US Attorney’s Office\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they shouldn\u2019t be, absolutely. Yes. We are going to go through every single person that has a pending asylum claim,\u00a0has\u00a0an asylum claim here in this country,\u201d she declared, when asked if she would deport immigrants with current asylum cases.<\/p>\n
\u201c[We will]\u00a0ensure that they deserve to still be in this country, that they still have the purposes for which they claimed that asylum in place.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that they\u2019re not here being radicalized, and perpetuating dangerous criminal activity against our Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Afghan Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, who previously worked on one of the CIA\u2019s \u201cZero Units\u201d in Afghanistan before being allowed into the US in 2021, was arrested last Wednesday for the shooting rampage, which killed one National Guard solider and critically wounded another.<\/p>\n
Lakanwal, who is\u00a0expected to recover from his injuries<\/a>\u00a0after a National Guard member shot him, is facing\u00a0one count of first-degree murder and two counts of assault with intent to kill while armed, according to\u00a0U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.<\/p>\n Authorities have provided few details about his alleged motivations, though Attorney General Pam Bondi teased that information is coming.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was radicalized. You\u2019re going to hear a lot more about that,\u201d Bondi told \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese young men and women in the Guard, they want to help our country. They want to be here. They are patriots,\u201d she added. \u201cYet they will not be attacked by a radical Islamic terrorist who screams by reports \u2018Allah Akbar\u2019 before shooting two of our Guard members and almost killing more.\u201d<\/p>\n Lakanwal spotted at the scene of the shooting. Obtained by the Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n