Trump Calls for Permanent Pause on Immigration From “Third World Countries” After D.C. Shooting of Guardsmen

President Donald Trump used a Thanksgiving Day message to call for what he described as a permanent pause on immigration from “all Third World Countries,” proposing sweeping restrictions and reversals to existing immigration pathways as part of a broader overhaul he says is necessary for national recovery. The remarks came one day after an Afghan national shot and critically wounded two West Virginia National Guardsmen near the White House, an incident Trump has cited in renewed calls for enhanced vetting and enforcement. On Thursday, one of the two Guardsmen shot in the incident, Sarah Beckstrom, died after being in critical condition. In the post, Trump criticized decades of U.S. immigration policy, characterizing it as “Politically Correct” and “STUPID,” and claiming it had left the nation “divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at.” He referenced census figures estimating the foreign-born population at 53 million, asserting that arrivals from “failed ...