During the end of November and beginning of December, two significant news stories involving crime and immigration got even more attention than they would have received under normal circumstances because of President Trump’s response to them.
On Nov. 26, an Afghan man shot two soldiers from the West Virginia National Guard who were deployed in Washington, D.C. One of the soldiers, Sarah Beckstrom, died of her wounds; the other, Andrew Wolfe, is still fighting for his life as of this writing and is listed in serious condition. The man who shot them had been admitted to the United States as a refugee in 2021 after serving alongside U.S. intelligence and military personnel during the war in Afghanistan.
