There is little question that Joe Biden was the worst president of the modern era and certainly one of the worst in the history of the country, as we continue to discover week after week. Now that includes making our country far less safe than it otherwise should be.
More than 5,000 Afghan citizens identified for “national security” concerns were permitted entry into the U.S. during the Biden administration. This information has surfaced following an incident in which an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lankanwal reportedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., resulting in one death and leaving the other in critical condition.
More than 5,000 Afghans brought to the US after American forces withdrew from the country got flagged for “national security” issues, Department of Homeland Security data obtained by The Post reveals.
In all, the feds uncovered “potential derogatory information” on a total of 6,868 people who came from Afghanistan as part of President Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome in 2021.
Of that number, 5,005 came up with a national security concern, while 956 people had “public safety” concerns and 876 were flagged for fraud, according to the data.
DHS provided the information to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, after he posed a series of questions to the Homeland Security Department in May 2024.
While various US agencies were able to resolve many of the red flags, as of September there were still 885 people with potentially negative national security information – posing a possible threat.
Following Wednesday’s shocking ambush of two National Guards members in Washington DC, President Trump ordered a review of security and vetting protocols for migrants from 19 “high-risk” countries, along with all asylum cases approved by the prior administration.
?AFGHANS ARE A SECURITY RISK FOR THE WORLD?
Zabihullah Mohmand, an Afghan resettled in Montana, was charged with raping a teenage girl just days after his arrival.
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— Taymur Malik (@BlueMist911) November 30, 2025
Lankarwal, 29, came into the United States in 2021 under the Biden-era Operation Allies Welcome program. He was part of a CIA-backed Zero Unit that fought the Taliban — and like far too many evacuees rushed through without proper vetting, he later struggled to adjust after settling in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife and five children. Reports now suggest he faced serious mental health issues, and there is growing speculation that the shooting may have been driven by radical Islamic extremism.
These failures aren’t random. They stem directly from the Biden administration’s reckless approach to screening migrants from some of the world’s most dangerous regions — an approach President Trump ordered reviewed when he returned to office. That review uncovered exactly what Americans feared: DHS “encountered obstacles” in vetting Afghan evacuees, allowing 55 individuals on the terror watch list to slip into the country by May 2023.
Two of those individuals were later charged in connection with an ISIS-inspired plot to disrupt the 2024 elections in Oklahoma City. This is what happens when national security takes a back seat to political narratives — and Americans are left holding the consequences.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said, “I spent years calling attention to the weak vetting standards in Operation Allies Welcome, despite considerable pushback from the Biden administration and many of my colleagues in Congress,” and, “Sadly, this past week’s tragedy in Washington only validates my concerns further.”
