National Guardsmen Shooting Suspect Underwent Vetting Process And Approved For Asylum This Year
Chief law enforcement officer and intelligence analyst John Miller said the Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guardsmen on Wednesday went through multiple rounds of federal vetting before securing asylum in the United States earlier this year.
Authorities say the suspect in the shooting of two West Virginia National Guardsmen near the White House, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who entered the U.S. on humanitarian parole after fleeing the Taliban takeover. During a segment on “Anderson 360,” Miller revealed that the suspect first arrived from Afghanistan in 2021 and went through multiple vetting processes.
“What we know is that he comes here from Afghanistan. Now, this is a guy who’s been living in Washington state, not Washington DC, on the other end of the country. He comes here from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021,” Miller said. “Remember what that was like. Refugees fleeing Afghanistan. People had to be recommended by U.S. people on one end, vetted on this end by government background checks as far as they could do in Afghanistan, have sponsors and so on.”
The suspect, Miller said, eventually settled in Washington state and applied for asylum in December 2024, launching a separate, formal vetting process.
“He settled in Washington. He applies for asylum in December of 2024. Now he goes through another vetting process involving that. And he’s approved for asylum in April of this year under the Trump administration,” Miller said. “He comes in under the Biden administration. These checks are being done. I remember as a part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York where we supplied people for that vetting process, it was a lot of pressure. There was a lot of people. They were being kept in military installations.” (Read more from “National Guardsmen Shooting Suspect Underwent Vetting Process And Approved For Asylum This Year” HERE)
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