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Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:01 PM Thursday

Trump ended a program in February that allowed Afghans that helped US forces to come to the US [View all]

Causing them to be stuck in limbo in foreign countries.

Also prior to this shooting, ICE has been detaining Afghan immigrants per numerous news reports from across the country.

We don’t yet know the shooters motive, but we all know that if an Afghan helped US troops against the Taliban, they or their relatives would not fare well if they were returned to Afghanistan.

But if that was his motive, the people he shot had nothing to do with that,

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