Trump Restores Extreme Vetting After Tragic White House Attack

Americans woke up to the nightmare no one wanted to imagine when two West Virginia National Guardsmen were gunned down on duty near the White House on November 26, 2025. The assailant, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is reported to be an Afghan national who arrived in the United States under the humanitarian programs that were supposed to be secure but apparently failed to stop a violent radical from slipping through. This was not a random mugging in a bad neighborhood; it was an attack on the very people sent to keep our streets and our capital safe.

President Trump reacted like any commander-in-chief who puts American lives first: he ordered an immediate tightening of our immigration screens and resurrected the hardline “extreme vetting” posture that puts safety above open-borders wishful thinking. This administration’s executive action reinstates strict screening measures and pauses certain admissions until officials can be sure people coming here do not pose a national-security threat. For hardworking Americans watching their sons and daughters protect the homeland, this was the right move at the right time.

On Fox Report, Middle East Forum strategist Jim Hanson cut through the political theater and bluntly explained what too many in the establishment refuse to say: when background checks and entry protocols are porous, every American is at risk. Hanson’s straight talk mirrors the common-sense view most citizens share — we must stop excuses and start securing our borders and gates with real vetting that identifies threats before they reach our soil. The elites can keep lecturing about compassion while handing our civilians and service members over to preventable danger; patriots will choose security.

This is not shorthand rhetoric; the new measures require agencies to pull together biometric, biographical, and social-media screening and to reexamine visa and refugee pipelines that have been exploited by bad actors. The objective, as laid out by administration guidance, is to restore rigorous checks, close loopholes and make sure the people who enter our country do so without hidden threats or radical ties. No serious nation trusts its future to paper guarantees and polite promises — we owe our troops and neighbors concrete proof that screening actually works.

Conservatives know what the rest of the country is learning the hard way: soft-on-border policies and moralizing lectures from coastal elites cost lives. Democrats and open-borders activists who reflexively scream “xenophobia” while ignoring simple facts should be held to account as families pray for the recovery of the wounded and bury the fallen. Support for “extreme vetting” is not cruelty; it is common-sense patriotism — standing firm to protect our communities, our soldiers, and the American way of life from threats we can and must prevent.