US Prez says will ban entry from ‘third world countries’

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would suspend migration from what he called “third world countries”, a day after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington, killing one.

- Agence France-Presse

His social media post, which also threatened to reverse “millions” of admissions granted under his predecessor Joe Biden, marked a new escalation in the anti-migration stance of a second term that has been dominated by ‘Trump's mass deportation campaign.

Trump had earlier announced that Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member deployed in Washington as part of his crackdown on crime, had died from her wounds.

The other soldier wounded in Wednesday's attack, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, was “fighting for his life” on Thursday, Trump said. The suspected shooter was also in a serious condition.

The US attorney for Washington DC, Jeanine Pirro, said the suspected assailant — identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal—had been living in the western state of Washington and had driven across the country to the nation’s capital.