How the National Guard shooting accelerated Trump’s immigration crackdown

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  Just before Thanksgiving, two U.S.

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  National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C.

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  After the attack, President Donald Trump promised to,

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  quote, permanently pause migration from all Third World countries.

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  Since then,

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  there's been an immigration crackdown that has turned up the White House's anti-immigration policies to a new level.

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  Afghan refugees in the United States are at the center of all of this.

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  because the suspect in the Washington shooting is an Afghan.

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  And some Afghan refugees are in a particularly precarious position.

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  Those who arrived in the U.S.

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  after working for the U.S.

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  military during the 20-year war in their home country.

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  Many were promised safety in America when U.S.

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  troops withdrew, and that promise is now in doubt.

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  I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.

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  And I'm Tristan Redman in London.

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  Today on The Global Story, how huge changes to U.S.

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  immigration policy happened so fast,

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  and why Afghans who helped the United States might now be at risk.

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  Coming up later in the show, we're going to hear from our colleague Mahfouz Zubaidi.

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