Trump vows immigration policy changes after shooting
Newshour
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4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has said he'll "permanently pause" immigration from what he called Third World countries, following the shooting of two young National Guard soldiers in Washington on Wednesday, allegedly by an Afghan gunman. In a strongly worded post on social media, he said immigration had eroded living conditions in the United States and that he would remove or denaturalise migrants who "undermine domestic tranquillity," as he put it.
Also in the programme: a top Ukrainian official resigns; and Pope Leo XIV travels to Turkey.
(Photo: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media on Thanksgiving, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 27, 2025. CREDIT: REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello there, welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.9 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm Ben James. |
| 0:16.3 | The suspect in the shooting of two members of the US National Guard in Washington, D.C. is a man from |
| 0:22.4 | Afghanistan who once worked alongside the CIA. For President Donald Trump, that's the justification |
| 0:28.5 | to him, in his words, permanently pause migration from what he called third world countries, |
| 0:35.5 | which will include Afghanistan. It came in a post on his |
| 0:39.4 | truth social network without adding further details. One of the National Guard members who |
| 0:44.9 | was shot, Sarah Bexstrom, has since died. The other is still said to be seriously ill in hospital. |
| 0:51.5 | Speaking to the press late on Thursday, President Trump said the vetting process had |
| 0:55.6 | failed. You'll hear him being challenged by a reporter from CBS. |
| 1:00.4 | They came in unvetted, and we have a lot of others in this country. We're going to get them out. |
| 1:05.5 | But they go cuckoo. Something happens to them. |
| 1:08.1 | Your DOJIG just reported this year that there was thorough vetting by DHS and by the FBI |
| 1:14.1 | of these Afghans who were brought into the U.S. |
| 1:17.6 | So why do you blame the Biden administration? |
| 1:20.1 | Because they let them in. |
| 1:21.5 | Are you stupid? |
| 1:22.6 | Are you a stupid person? |
| 1:23.7 | Because they came into, on a plane, along with thousands of other people that shouldn't be here |
| 1:29.5 | and you're just asking questions because you're a stupid person and we there's a law passed that |
| 1:35.8 | it's almost impossible not to get to get them out you can't get them out once they come in and they |
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