Donald Trump has announced that his administration will "permanently pause" migration from all "Third World Countries".

Trump did not identify any countries by name or explain what he meant by third-world countries or "permanently pause".

He said the plan would include cases approved under former President Joe Biden's administration.

“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States," he said on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Trump said he would end all federal benefits and subsidies for "non-citizens", adding he would "denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility" and deport any foreign national deemed a public charge, security risk, or "non-compatible with Western civilization”.

Trump's comments followed the death of a National Guard member who had been shot near the White House in an ambush investigators say was carried out by an Afghan national.

The accused shooter, identified by law enforcement officials as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, worked with the CIA "as a member of a partner force in Kandahar," the top US intelligence agency’s director John Ratcliffe said.

It didn't specify what Lakanwal did for America's spy agency.

The Kandahar region in southern Afghanistan was in the Taliban heartland of the country and saw fierce fighting between the Taliban and Nato forces after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 following the al-Qaida attacks on September 11.

The CIA relied on Afghan staff for translation, administrative and front-line fighting with their own paramilitary officers in the war.

Little is known about Lakanwal's four years in the U.S. or why he drove across the country from his home in Bellingham, Washington, where a former landlord said he lived with his wife and five children.

Donald Trump has spoken directly with the family of National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom, who was killed in yesterday’s shooting in Washington, D.C., a spokesperson has confirmed.

"The President spoke with Sarah Beckstrom’s parents this evening,” an official told The Independent.

During remarks the president added he would consider attending her funeral.“Well, the family is devastated, as you can imagine,” he said.

U.S. president Donald Trump has ordered a widespread review of asylum cases approved under former President Joe Biden's administration and Green Cards issued to citizens of 19 countries, Department of Homeland Security officials said.

Officials say the Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday entered the U.S. in 2021 under a resettlement program.

Joseph Edlow, the head of the US citizenship immigration services, said the president had directed him to conduct "a full scale, rigorous re-examination of every green card for every alien from every country of concern."

A Trump administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Lakanwal applied for asylum in December 2024 and was approved on April 23 this year, three months after Trump took office.

Lakanwal, who resided in Washington state, had no known criminal history, the official said.

Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who questioned him why he was blaming former president Joe Biden’s administration for the shooting in the Washington D.C.

In an exchange with a reporter, Trump said the shooter “went cuckoo, he went nuts”. The reporter flagged the shooting suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national, had past ties to the CIA.Trump argued back that “there was no vetting or anything. They came in unvetted.”

When the reporter said the Afghan refugees accepted into the US had been vetted, he said: “Are you a stupid person?”

“Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn’t be here, and you’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person,” he ranted.

Donald Trump has announced that his administration will work to permanently pause migration from all "Third World Countries", claiming this is needed to allow the U.S. system to fully recover.

His remarks come after a National Guard member died yesterday after being shot near the White House in an ambush that investigators say was carried out by an Afghan national.

After giving an update on the two National Guardsmen late Thursday, Donald Trump continued to blast his predecessor Joe Biden for allowing immigrants, including Afghan soldiers, to enter the U.S. after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

“It was total bedlam,” he said. “Do you remember that period of time, total Bedlam, people crammed onto the plane, and the toughest, meanest, most capable physically got on the plane, not the people that we were looking for or that they wanted to bring in.

“This is what we had under the Biden administration,” he said.

Donald Trump has hit out at the suspect arrested after two National Guard soldiers were shot in Washington, D.C., in what the president described as a “monstrous, ambush-style attack.”

The guardsmen from West Virginia were shot by a lone gunman just north of the White House shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Here’s everything you need to know about the suspected shooter: