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Gaugamela

(3,118 posts)
Wed Nov 26, 2025, 10:43 PM Nov 26

Trump GRANTED ASYLUM to DC SHOOTER in APRIL!!

The DC shooter’s asylum application was approved by Trump’s administration in April.


MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the news that Donald Trump’s administration gave the DC shooter who shot two National Guards Members asylum this April 2025.
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bornsunny

(47 posts)
14. It may be neither....
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:57 AM
Nov 27

If the shooter did almost everything by the book and kept himself clean, then there were no grounds to deny him refugee status or asylum. It's one of the risks you take if you take in refugees or immigrants.They may be good people today but they may act differently in the future.

RockRaven

(18,529 posts)
4. They will use this incident as an excuse to deny any and all asylum claims
Wed Nov 26, 2025, 11:13 PM
Nov 26

so any triumphalism about debunking the false talking point about Biden having granted this person asylum is wildly misplaced.

ancianita

(42,711 posts)
5. Right. The Biden narrative got out in front of the facts of this admin's own incompetence, & now that narrative/lie is
Wed Nov 26, 2025, 11:27 PM
Nov 26

used to deny asylum to anyone, even though this country is from the world.

Always get the false narrative out in front of the base, echoed in his RW propaganda feeds,
then strip all avenues of entry eventually, so that whoever is here is now walled in by either fact, feeling, and enforced poverty.

Immobilizing a population (and its empowering institutions) is part of controlling it. A privatized plantation.

subterranean

(3,738 posts)
12. They're already denying most claims, except for white South Africans.
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:36 AM
Nov 27

And just yesterday they announced they would re-vet refugees who were already admitted to the U.S. They are going to focus mainly on refugees admitted during the Biden administration, and I imagine they'll look for any excuse they can find, including minor paperwork errors, to revoke their legal status and deport them.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,630 posts)
17. They are UNREPENTENT LIARS.... because
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 01:32 PM
Nov 27

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national, arrived in the U.S. in September 2021 as part of "Operation Allies Welcome," a program initiated by the Biden administration following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

He applied for asylum in 2024 and his application was officially approved, granting him asylum in April 2025, WHICH OCCURRED UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINSTRATION.

DFW

(59,545 posts)
9. The ranting on Fox is shocking
Wed Nov 26, 2025, 11:53 PM
Nov 26

No one even factchecks their propagandists (“six” Senators!! Any Republicans want to name them?).

No wonder Elissa Slotkin has additional security since about a week ago. That might be why no homegrown European-American terrorist got to her or Mark yet.

This is “Remember The Maine” on steroids, only this time, they don’t want to attack Spain. They want to attack us.

intheflow

(29,919 posts)
15. A paid agitator perhaps?
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:07 AM
Nov 27

“Say, we did you a favor granting you asylum, so how’d you like to do us a favor? Shoot these guys and we’ll pin it on the left.”

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