Gabbard claims 2,000 Afghans in the U.S. have ties to terrorism

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Friday that at least 2,000 Afghan refugees in the U.S. have terrorism ties, during a Fox & Friends interview. 

Why it matters: The Trump administration has singled out the Afghan community in the U.S. and suspended immigration applications since the shooting of National Guard members allegedly by an Afghan refugee. 

The other side: "F--king prove it," Shawn VanDiver, the president of #AfghanEvac, told Axios. "They keep lying to us over and over and over again. And we know 100% for sure that they were all vetted."

Driving the news: Gabbard claimed "the vast majority" of Afghan refugees who entered the U.S. after the Biden administration's withdrawal in Afghanistan were not properly vetted. Of those, at least 2,000 "have ties to or are known or suspected terrorists," she said.

  • They were identified based on intelligence information collected, assessed and analyzed by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), an Office of the Director of National Intelligence official said. 

What's next: Gabbard said the Trump administration is going to do another review of everyone who came from Afghanistan as a result of the withdrawal, Gabbard said. 

  • NCTC director Joe Kent last month also previewed the revetting. 

Threat level: "I think that they're changing the criteria for this re-vet," VanDiver said.

  • "So what I'm actually worried is that they're just going to use this as an excuse to go back through and look at people in a different light than that is actually required by law." 

Zoom out: The Trump administration has scapegoated immigrant groups, including Somalis recently, after a suspect from Afghanistan was accused of fatally shooting a National Guard member and wounding another in Washington, D.C. 

Source: https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/tulsi-gabbard-afghans-terrorism

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