President Donald Trump announced on Thursday evening that he would “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries” in the wake of the shooting of two National Guardsmen by a suspected Afghan national.

“A migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher,” wrote Trump in a Thanksgiving message posted to Truth Social. “This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America.”

The president went on to accuse Somalian refugees of “completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota,” before calling the governor of the state, Tim Walz, “seriously retarded.”

“Even as we have progressed technologically, Immigration Policy has eroded those gains and living conditions for many,” Trump continued, announcing:

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, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization. These goals will be pursued with the aim of achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process. Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!

Trump made the announcement just a few hours after it was reported that 20-year-old National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom had died from her wounds. She had been shot in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday by a man who is thought to be an Afghan national.

Andrew Wolfe, a 24-year-old Guardsman, was also shot during the incident and is still in critical condition.

The Trump administration made headlines recently when it announced that it will significantly reduce the number of refugees the United States will accept in the upcoming fiscal year and prioritize white South Africans, who it says are facing discrimination in their home country.

According to notices published in the Federal Register, the U.S. will admit no more than 7,500 refugees between October 2025 and September 2026. The guidance explicitly states that Afrikaner refugees and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands will receive priority.

The new cap marks a sharp reduction from the Biden administration, which admitted roughly 100,000 refugees annually. It also represents the lowest refugee intake since the 1970s, when the limit stood at 17,000 per year. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic under Trump’s first term, the United States accepted at least 11,000 refugees annually, Politico reported.

In a significant procedural shift, the administration announced that oversight of refugee resettlement contracts will move from the State Department to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the Department of Health and Human Services — a major departure from how the U.S. refugee program has traditionally been managed.

The administration did not provide much of an explanation for the changes in the notice, but did stress the need to conduct refugee resettlement “in a manner that serves the national interest, promotes efficient use of taxpayer dollars, protects the integrity of the United States immigration system, and supports refugees in achieving early economic self-sufficiency and assimilation into American society.”

Under the new structure, ORR will assume full responsibility for working with public and private partners to resettle refugees across the United States and provide financial support for those programs, noted Politico.

The White House said that “no refugees will be admitted in FY26 until the appropriate consultations with Congress are held, which are being delayed because certain members of Congress insisted on shutting down the government.”