Another Biden Border Catastrophe: Afghan “Ally” Shoots National Guard Troops in D.C., Yelling “Allahu Akbar” – And He Was Vetted!

Folks, here we go again. Just when you thought the Biden-Harris open-borders disaster couldn’t get any more deadly, an Afghan migrant who was fast-tracked into America under their chaotic 2021 evacuation shoots two young National Guard soldiers patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. One is dead. The other is fighting for his life. And the suspect? He screamed “Allahu akbar!” while doing it.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, pleaded not guilty Tuesday – from his hospital bed, no less, where he’s recovering from wounds after police stopped his rampage just as he tried to reload.

He’s charged with assault with intent to kill while armed, possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and murder. Bond denied – thank God for small miracles.The victims? Twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, who tragically died the next day, and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, who remains in serious condition.

These kids had literally been sworn in less than 24 hours earlier. As U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said:

“Both Beckstrom and Wolfe ‘were sworn in less than 24 hours before they were shot on the street in Washington.’”

Beckstrom even volunteered to work over Thanksgiving so her fellow soldiers could be with their families. Heartbreaking.

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said Wolfe “remains in serious condition,” but is showing signs of movement and awareness.

President Trump, during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, revealed he’d spoken directly with Wolfe’s parents:

“They said he didn’t have a chance,” Trump recalled. “I will tell you, the one who said he is going to live is his mother … ‘Sir, he is going to live.’ I spoke to her very soon after this horrible event took place with this scum that is able to come into our country.”

“I spoke to his mother, ‘Sir, he’s going to be okay. I’m telling you.’ No doctor thought that. Nobody thought that. He was hit bad places. She was so positive, it was incredible. And possibly right. … That would be amazing. If he lives, it would be amazing, a miracle, actually.”

Pray for that young man. Pray for both families.

Now here’s the part that should infuriate every American: Lakanwal was brought here in 2021 under Biden’s infamous “Operation Allies Welcome” – the same frantic airlift that dumped roughly 77,000 Afghans into the country with what even DHS now admits was laughably inadequate vetting.

He got asylum in April. Why? Because, we’re told, he supposedly worked with U.S. entities in Afghanistan – including, according to former CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the agency itself.So the same administration that left billions in equipment and Americans behind in Kabul turned around and flew in tens of thousands of people – and at least one of them just murdered an American soldier on our own soil while shouting the jihadist war cry.

The Trump administration has already responded by halting asylum decisions and stopping new Afghan visas. About time someone slammed the door shut.

This is what happens when you treat national security like a giant welcome wagon. Sarah Beckstrom is never coming home. Andrew Wolfe is clinging to life. And the people who created this preventable nightmare still won’t admit they were wrong.Never forget: they called it “Operation Allies Welcome.”

One of those “allies” just declared war on America – again.

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Family Gives Update on 24-Year-Old National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe After Shooting Near White House

(Photo left: Andrew Wolfe’s family / Photo right: 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe sources: Facebook & FBI)

The 24-year-old Air National Guardsman from West Virginia, Andrew Wolfe, is still in critical condition in the hospital after being shot Wednesday in an ambush-style, jihad-inspired attack near the White House. His family has been sharing updates on social media about how he is doing after surgery.

On Thursday, President Trump spoke with the military and sadly announced that the second Guardsman who was standing next to Wolfe, U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, had died in the hospital with her parents by her side.

On Friday, Wolfe's mom said her son had been out of surgery for a few hours. Doctors are letting his brain swell a little on purpose right now, and the next 24 to 48 hours are the most important. The prior day, NBC News reached out to the family. At first, Andrew's dad, Jason, didn't want to talk. Then he said, "Just pray for my son."

Here's what Andrew's mother, Melody Wolfe, posted on Facebook:

"Hey there, Andy’s been out of surgery for a few hours. His brain is being allowed space to swell and this first 24 to 48 hours is the biggest thing right now. They have no clue about any lasting effects right now because we’re in this very first stage. The first two weeks will be a waiting game. Right now he's surviving and alive. We got to see him in ICU and he's sedated. It feels like a nightmare and this doesn’t feel real."

Later that day, she shared a more hopeful update:

"I want to give everyone an update on our boy. We talked with the neurologist this morning and he said Andy is doing better than they imagined. He's reacting to stimuli and is opening eyes and trying to move around. They are making sure he is sedated to allow the brain to heal so he is not feeling any pain. With this being said though, we know that with a brain swell, it'll get worse before it gets better. But the neurosurgeon is hopeful that things are moving in the right direction. Andy has a very long road ahead and right now we are going hour by hour but miracles are already occurring just with his progress he’s making so far. Your prayers and love mean so much to us and we need you guys to continue lifting Andy's name up. He will be a walking testimony through this. Our God is good and miracles are happening as we speak.

I do want to make sure everyone knows we ARE NOT starting any Go Fund Me’s. I believe there’s one out there but we are wanting for nothing. We want prayers, your love, and your support. That’s the most important thing right now. So please, if you see a Go Fund Me, screenshot it and send it to me so we can make sure no one gives to these. We love you all and again, we cannot thank you enough for everything our community, state, and nation are doing to show support."

Andrew joined the West Virginia Air National Guard on February 5, 2019. He works with the 167th Airlift Wing and was helping with a new program in Washington, D.C. called the "D.C. Safe and Beautiful Mission" that started in August. The program brings together different government groups to keep the nation’s capital safe, clean, and welcoming.

A friend named Brooke Davison, who met Andrew through a local cornhole league, told former newspaper The New York Times that he never worried about his safety while working in D.C.

"Andy is easily one of the strongest, determined and God-fearing men I know," Davison said. "I have no doubt he has the willpower in him to come out on top of this."

Berkeley County Schools in West Virginia sent an email saying Andrew graduated from Musselman High School in 2019. The school is very proud of him and is supporting his family. "During his time at Musselman High, he was an active, engaged, and high-achieving student who embodied the Applemen spirit, contributing positively to our school community both academically and athletically,” said Musselman High School principal Alicia Riggleman.

Let's do what Andrew's father, Jason, asked for--let's pray for his recovery.

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National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died and still the Left uses her death politically

West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died from being shot near the White House by an unvetted Afghan national. She was only 20-years-old and had her whole life ahead of her.

One is almost lost for words when contemplating the sheer grimness of this story, yet it is precisely the sort of story that reveals the fatal conjunction of sentimentality and incompetence that has come to define the Western elite in our time, particularly with the Biden administration.

On Thanksgiving Day itself, as millions of Americans sat down to give thanks for the blessings of family and freedom, President Trump was obliged to announce the death of  Sarah Beckstrom, who had been shot the previous day while on duty near the White House.

"I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on right now, I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the Guardsmen that we’re talking about — highly respected, young, magnificent person — started service in 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away," President Trump said, his voice heavy with the knowledge that a young life had been snuffed out for the apparent sake of jihad, as it was reported that the shooter yelled "Allahu akbar," or 'Allah is greater.'

"She's no longer with us, she's looking down on us right now,” Trump continued. "Her parents are with her. This just happened. She was savagely attacked, she's dead, not with us. Incredible person. Outstanding in every single way, in every department. Just horrible."

When President Trump gets this hyperbolic, you can imagine he is truly feeling the loss of this young woman.

Only hours earlier her father, Gary Beckstrom, had spoken the words no parent should ever have to utter: "I’m holding her hand right now," he said. "She has a mortal wound. It's not going to be a recovery."

Sarah had, of course, volunteered to stand duty over the Thanksgiving holiday precisely so that her comrades might spend the day with their own families. A small act of selflessness, one might have thought, in a country that still pretends to honor such things.

And what do we find at the end of this chain of events? The alleged shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is a 29-year-old Afghan national, who arrived in the United States in 2021 under the auspices of Joe Biden's much-vaunted "Operation Allies Welcome," a program that, in its boundless generosity, managed to import some 77,000 Afghans into America with what can only be described as minimal scrutiny.

The consequences of such reckless virtue-signalling are no longer theoretical. They have names. They have grieving parents. They have a 20-year-old girl who will never again sit at a Thanksgiving table.

As Attorney General Pam Bondi observed: "She volunteered, as did many of those guardsmen and women, so other people could be home with their families. Yet, now, their families are in hospital rooms with them while they are fighting for their lives."

And Jeanine Pirro, the United States Attorney for D.C., added with understandable bitterness: "They answered the call, they took the charge, they volunteered, they put their lives on the line for people they don’t even know, and that unfortunately is becoming a reality more and more for the members of law enforcement."

One hardly needs to spell out the lesson here, though it is a lesson that certain quarters remain determined never to learn. When a society decides that the most important thing is to appear compassionate, when it confuses open borders with moral superiority, and vetting with xenophobia, then sooner or later it will pay the price in the most excruciating currency of all: the blood of its own daughters.

Sarah Beckstrom gave her life so that others might enjoy a holiday. The very least her country can do now is to ask, without apology and without euphemism, how it came to be that the man accused of taking it was ever allowed on American soil in the first place.

And finally, how can people on the Left, simply due to their hatred of Trump and half of America, use this horrific act of what appears to be Islamic jihad, to attack conservatives.

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