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Donald Trump has said he will "permanently pause migration" to the US from all "third world countries".

The US president wrote in a Truth Social post that this would "allow the US system to fully recover" from policies that had eroded the "gains and living conditions" of many Americans. He did not provide details of his plan or name which countries might be affected.

His comments came a day after an Afghan national was accused of shooting two members of the National Guard in Washington DC, one of whom has died. Trump suggested the incident underlined a major national security threat.

The president's subsequent announcements represent a further toughening of his stance on immigration.

In the wake of the shooting, he promised to remove from the US any foreigner "from any country who does not belong here". The same day, the US suspended processing all immigration requests from Afghans, saying the decision was made pending a review of "security and vetting protocols".

Then on Thursday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it would re-examine green cards issued to individuals who had migrated to the US from 19 countries. The announcement did not explicitly mention Wednesday's attack.

When asked by the BBC which countries were on the list, the agency pointed to a June proclamation by the White House that included Afghanistan, Cuba, Haiti, Iran, Somalia and Venezuela.

There were no further details about what the re-examination would look like.

Trump's strongly worded two-part post on Thursday night went further, pledging to "end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens".

'Third-world countries'

In the post, the president also blamed refugees for causing the "social dysfunction in America" and vowed to remove "anyone who is not a net asset" to the US.

The post, which Trump introduced as a "Happy Thanksgiving salutation", was filled with anti-immigrant language.

He said that "hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia were completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota" and took particular aim at the state's Democratic lawmakers.

"I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover," the president wrote.

The phrase "third world" is a term that was used in the past to describe poorer, developing nations.

The White House and USCIS have not yet given further details of Trump's plan, which Trump did not directly link in his post to Wednesday's attack.

The president had already imposed a travel ban on nationals of Afghanistan - and 11 other countries, primarily in Africa and Asia - earlier this year. Another travel ban targeting a number of majority-Muslim countries was enacted during his first term.

The Trump response to Wednesday's shooting amounted to a "scapegoating" of migrants in the US, argued Jeremy McKinney, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Speaking to the BBC World Service's Newsday programme before Trump's latest comments, Mr McKinney highlighted that the attacker's motive was not known. "These types of issues - they don't know skin colour, they don't know nationality," he said. "When a person becomes radicalised or is suffering some type of mental illness, that person can come from any background."

Suspect in DC shooting is Afghan

The flurry of announcements come after officials said that the suspect in the Washington DC shooting, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, had come to the US in 2021.

Mr Lakanwal travelled under a programme that offered special immigration protections to Afghans who had worked with US forces in the wake of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.

At the time, the Taliban had taken back control of Afghanistan, raising fears of retribution against those who had co-operated with the US. Mr Lakanwal once worked alongside the CIA, the agency's current director has said.

Mr Lakanwal applied for asylum in 2024 and his application was granted earlier this year, an official told the BBC's US partner CBS News.

He was arrested after the attack and was said to be not co-operating with authorities.

Trump styled the attack as an "act of terror".

He said the following day that one of the two members of the National Guard who were shot had died.

Sarah Beckstrom succumbed to her injuries, he said. The 20-year-old from West Virginia was working in the city as part of Trump's deployment of National Guard members to crack down on crime.

She had volunteered to work in DC over the US Thanksgiving holiday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

The second National Guard member, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, was said by Trump to be "fighting for his life".

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxweyy157go

Third world country like Nigeria 🇳🇬
We don even relegate go Fourth world country sef

ACRI:
Unproductive, unpatriotic “lazy youth”
Stay on Nairaland celebrating rubbish, any negative thing about your country
Your tribesmen are busy creating wealth for their generations to come . At least you can show your children your hateful contributions on Nairaland as your legacy to them

Burob:
Very adequate response to vosimhen144.

Una wey Dey quote me dey talk shit,, I no blame Una, it’s obvious u people aren’t exposed.

You people don’t know the damage this bad government it's doing to it’s people.

Even those Nigerians abroad aren't left out,, once they see these reports, they treat you like you're running from a war zone,

Tell me, Do South Africans japa the way Una carry japa plans for head? Na dem even dey host G20 summit… Nigeria will NEVER have balls to host G20 Summit becus we still have people like u dat support bad government.

Shame no suppose reach like this, but Nigeria has turned embarrassment to a lifestyle.

It looks like we are in a cage surrounded by bandits, boko Haram and their likes.

His base are so happy about it on Twitter!

They just don’t want to say colored people, and why they have to say 3rd world countries.

The entire continent of Africa falls into it 😆🤣😆🤣

Funny but true!

Make he add Nigeria abeg, make everybody dey go home.

I’m sure some people are not happy that Nigeria is not part of the 19 countries of concern he paused/limited migration for.

Don’t worry, with the Christian genocide claims, your prayers will be answered soon. Just that when he hammer Nigeria, it won’t be for only the Muslims at that point, it’ll be for all.

Some bad belle people would celebrate this.

Basically pausing immigration from countries with dark skin people.
All of you clowns supporting the racist pdfile enjoy your master.

How about the fourth world countries like Nigeria?

Tonubu, you see your life.

Nigeria comes to mind, coupled with the recent coup that just happened.

Anyway, that is a serious President that valued the life of his citizens, to protect them at all cost.

In another country, they will tell the shooter 'well done' and perhaps put him on their pay roll.

Cho Cho Cho no workings..

Mtchew..

Bergavis:
Tonubu, you see your life.

Tinubu is the president of all the 3rd world countries in the world?
Omo come and see the kind of moomoos that wr have in Nigeria.

This man nawaoh. He really want to deal with them

This is the person Nigerian Christians support. Trump is very racist to the bone and hates black people. He will never send the American military to intervene in Nigeria.

Flangelo12:
Some bad belle people would celebrate this.

Oga off ur mic.

Tell ur weak president Tilumpoo to fix this country and also make life worth living in this country..

Trump dey protect his country from ran-aways like una

Na so. To your Tents Oh Israel.

The leaders should work towards building viable countries for their citizens.

Too much talk... Everyday cho cho cho!

Ban them all, make everybody go answer him papa name.

If your Immigration can't properly and strictly screen those they let into your country, how is that the fault of the immigrants?!!

...Who says immigrants from "first world" nations harbor no ill will or can't become terrorists.

Let him deport all our corrupt politicians children. Let th m come home and enjoy the security Thiefnubuu is providing to Nigeria.

Helinues madridguy yarimo hope I am speaking your mind. The country is safer than when Buhari left office. Let the elites move freely without security cus the country is safe 😏😏😏
I know you guys are currently hiding under the bed cus of bandits and Fulani terrorists, relax Tinubu doesn't sleep. He's awake for three weeks now 😜😜😜😏😏

He's free to do that. Third-world countries are a menace to the world.

We should pause our natural resources to them also.

But honestly Trump is an irresponsible President. He runs his mouth more than he uses his brain.
"Third World Countries"! As if you don't benefit from those countries... This guy is a Lunatic! I just don't like him. He is one of the most stupid and selfish entities to become a President. To rule America shows may be the country was not so great afterall.

SpaceX:
It looks like we are in a cage surrounded by bandits, boko Haram and their likes.

A cage built and solidified by disunity among you people due to religion and ethnicity.

It's laughable how over 200 million people permitted less than 100,000 people to cage them.

Nigeria and Nigerians are a huge JOKE in this universe... A proper laughing stock among nations on Earth.

PigTormentor:
Basically pausing immigration from countries with dark skin people
All of you clowns supporting the racist pdfile enjoy your master.

But he wont pause the acquisition of their rare earth minerals

Seems the whites in the US will need to start increasing their family size because the ways the Blacks, Indians, Hispanics and Africans are reproducing there, the demographics will soon change forever. Well who am I to complain? America is an Immigrant society.

Trump is only playing to his base. Let me tell you, these guys know what they are doing. All these labels of first world and second world is to make themselves feel good. For instance, China called itself a developing country and it used to be a 3rd world. US protested at the UN that China cannot be saying it's still a developing country and enjoying the benefit of that status while its economy is doing well.

China did not bother about the status. What they did was strategic, ignore the noise and keep working. The way Nigerians used to look down on Chinese product aka Chinko is the state US is right now. US has been importing stuff from China at a cheaper rate, regardless of the so called human rights abuses. Even your dear Apple produces in China, it makes economic sense. Pay lower fees in China and don't bother about Unions, rights and so many regulations in the first world. Trump came to threaten them but you and I know it will be very expensive to produce in the so-called first world than elsewhere. They are so entitled. So all these Trump is saying is just playing to the gallery. The capitalists know what they are doing.

They want to always look down on you that have the gold content and make their own crap look like platinum. It's one of the reasons they banned Huawei and any Chinese EV. Tesla will die if they bring Chinese EVs which are cheaper than their overpriced toys. They are doing it to Temu right now but don't forget that Amazon (US company) has been advertising Chinese goods on its website for years but all of a sudden, because the likes of Temu and Shein have opened doors, they are talking down on them. You can see Western hypocrisy. They are very good at sermons. Their people have now found out that it's cheaper or the cost of living can afford them chinko products than the overpriced alternatives they have. Now they are singing buy American first, buy Canadian, buy this and that. Go and watch what is happening, na their people de go China, Bangladesh, Vietnam go import. In the fashion industry it's the same. The so-called third world is being exploited by these people and they are summoning us to sermons.

It's what is happening in the music industry, it is cheaper to take an Àṣàkẹ́ to US than build a Houston-based one. They know what they are doing.

These guys will not do the work. Their economies were built on the blood and work of the so-called third world countries. A land that was built on slavery can't keep itself running with elites, they always need them. Covid showed us the hypocrisy recently.

The western world's immigration policies are not by mistake. In UK, when the Brits won't ride trucks to deliver foods, others from EU countries took up the jobs. Let's keep pretending. They didn't want to pay the Brits well, those ones complained of poor working conditions but what they complained about did not concern those who were hungry for jobs. So the question to ask is, are the AMERICAN CAPITALISTS ready to pay the true cost of labor to Americans and 'first world citizens'?


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To the so-called third world countries, fix your countries and stop letting the enemy from outside divide you and paint you black. You have been blessed by the Creator with natural resources, good weather, authentic food. They are very jealous of you. Their own people who are well traveled know this, that's why they come here. Propaganda can't alter truth no matter the amount of lies.

A clueless racist man. This is the same USA that is destabilising those so-called third world countries. They have no choice than to join you in the USA.

I support it. Most of these Tinubu supporters on nairaland live in US and Europe enjoying better live. In my area here in Ibadan we've not had electricity for the past months due to faulty transformer. The government is not there to fix it. Had it been thyre in this hell hole country sleeping inside heat or spending heavily on generator to supplement electricity, they're wouldn't defend the rubbish APC govt.

Trump abeg deport all Tinubu supporters in US and protect my uncle in Ohio

Berankis:
But honestly Trump is an irresponsible President. He runs his mouth more than he uses his brain.
"Third World Countries"! As if you don't benefit from those countries... This guy is a Lunatic! I just don't like him. He is one of the most stupid and selfish entity to become a President. To rule America, shows may be the country was not so great afterall.

Get it into your heads!!

He operates a fascist administration.

VOsimhen144:
Third world country like Nigeria 🇳🇬
We don even relegate go Fourth world country sef

If individuals are classified as third world, do you think you would feature at the top or not?

The reality is so obvious.

Let Trump pause whatever immigration he wants to pause.Trump is a bastard who is painting USA like it is heaven.Who gives a damn?The immigrants are building US and Trump is busy talking shit.Dumb ass Trump!!

I think Legendhero is finally coming home

BondRiv:
A clueless racist man. This is the same USA that is destabilising those so-called third world countries. They have no choice than to join you in the USA.

USA can't destabilise any nation that is united, well led and self-sufficient.

Whatever plunder these nations have done and still do in Africa, they had the full permission and cooperation of your greedy and useless leaders at all levels.

Even the Slavery some of you still moan about today only succeeded because your fellow Africans welcomed and permitted it. Even facilitated it.

Africans need to sit down and have a proper discussion within and among themselves Fast!