The Biden administration’s free-for-all admission of refugees from Afghanistan after it botched the United States’s withdrawal from the country allowed the man who opened fire on National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., into the country.

The suspect, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the United States in 2021 as part of President Joe Biden’s “Operation Allies Welcome,” which allowed roughly 77,000 Afghan nationals into the country, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire late Wednesday. That very program was exposed for allowing terrorists and countless unvetted individuals to go free into the United States.

Nearly a year after the last American troops left the war-torn country, the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s office discovered that federal officials lacked sufficient information to vet the evacuees and in some cases didn’t have the accurate or complete  backgrounds on the individuals. The report concluded that the Biden administration “admitted or paroled evacuees who were not fully vetted” even though they posed “a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.”

To add to security concerns, hundreds of Afghans walked off American military bases, where they were being housed until their resettlement was completed, before they were fully vetted, Reuters reported in October 2021.

The Biden administration’s poor vetting standards allowed an Afghan man into the United States who allegedly plotted an Election Day terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS. The Department of Justice charged Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, last year after he allegedly “took steps to liquidate his family’s assets, resettle members of his family overseas, acquire AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition” to carry out his attack.

Lakanwal allegedly shot two West Virginia National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House on Wednesday afternoon.

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro minced no words when he reacted to the Wednesday shooting of two National Guardsmen by an Afghan national near the White House.

“These are the wages of Joe Biden’s awful foreign policy combined with his awful immigration policy,” Shapiro said. “Remember: Joe Biden decided that in perfectly cowardly and ignominious fashion, the United States was going to flee Afghanistan and leave the entire country in the hands of the Taliban.”

Two National Guardsmen were shot in an apparent ambush. The suspect, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was also reportedly shot and taken into custody at the scene.

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— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 27, 2025

Shapiro asserted that Biden could have executed a withdrawal from Afghanistan in a more responsible manner, and noted that the chaotic mess that resulted was the reason Biden’s State Department had then implemented the refugee policies that allowed this terrorist and others entry into the United States with far less vetting they might otherwise be subjected to.

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Ultimately blaming “Joe Biden’s cowardice and idiocy,” Shapiro explained, “The result of this is that you end up with terrorists in the United States — and you remember, the original goal of this entire operation was to keep terrorists out of the United States and, in fact, to deny a safe haven to terrorists in Afghanistan and to keep terrorists outside of America’s borders.”

“It’s failure on top of failure on top of failure,” he added. “When you bring in huge numbers of people from countries that do not like the United States and whose cultures are, in fact, not assimilative to American values, then you can’t be surprised when stuff like this happens. You cannot.”

“This one is on Joe Biden, pure and simple,” Shapiro concluded. “I don’t know who else to blame. Honestly. It is your job to make sure that some of the most predictably terror-minded people on earth don’t come into the United States.”