An Afghan national was arrested this week after posting a TikTok video in which he indicated he was building a bomb with an intended target in the Fort Worth area of Texas, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News. Court records show Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat, Fox News reported.
According to DHS, Alokozay entered the United States under Operation Allies Welcome, the Biden administration program that resettled Afghans following the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the alleged gunman accused of shooting two National Guard members this week in Washington, D.C., also arrived in the United States through the same program.
“The magnitude of the national security crisis Joe Biden unleashed on our country over the span of four years cannot be overstated. President Trump has directed his entire team to continue rooting out this evil within our borders,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X in response to Alokozay’s arrest.
Alokozay was taken into custody on Tuesday by the Texas Department of Public Safety in coordination with an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The arrest came one day before the shooting in Washington, D.C.
Federal officials said Alokozay was admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident on Sept. 7, 2022.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer on Alokozay following his arrest.
Trump announced Thursday that he plans to temporarily halt immigration from third-world countries following the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. In a post on Truth Social, the president said the nation has advanced technologically but “Immigration Policy has eroded those gains and living conditions for many,” RedState reported.
He wrote that he will “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”
President Trump added that the goal is “achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process” and that “Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation.”
Before the announcement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a post on X that it had halted “all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals… indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.”
Authorities allege that a 29-year-old Afghan national, Rehmanullah Lakanwal, shot two members of the West Virginia National Guard near Farragut Square in downtown Washington.
Officials say he approached the guardsmen while they were on foot patrol near a Metro station and opened fire with a handgun. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, was shot multiple times and later died from her injuries. Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Rolfe, 24, was also shot and remains in critical condition.
A third service member who was not hit returned fire and helped stop the attack. Officials say the shooting appears to be an act of radical Islamic terrorism. Investigators say the suspect arrived in the United States after working with U.S. forces during the war in Afghanistan. He is now facing first-degree murder charges along with multiple counts of assault with intent to kill, according to published reports.
The Trump administration made headlines recently when it announced that it will significantly reduce the number of refugees the United States will accept in the upcoming fiscal year and prioritize white South Africans, who it says are facing discrimination in their home country.
