A country of immigrants whose unofficial mascot beseeches the world to, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” will now institute a policy of “reverse migration.”

That’s according to Donald Trump, who was none too pleased — or perhaps I should say positively elated, depending on how inclined you are to view the world through a cynical lens — at the shooting of two National Guard members in the nation’s capital just before Thanksgiving.

Unfortunately for brown people and immigrants, the shooter was a brown immigrant. It doesn’t help that one of the victims — who passed away over the holiday — was a rosy-cheeked, 20-year-old white woman named Sarah.

As you can see, the juxtaposition between the slain Guardsmember (on the left) and the suspect (on the right) is rather stark. That sort of contrast is a veritable godsend for Stephen Miller’s anti-immigration propaganda campaign.

The shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was raised in southeastern Afghanistan, where he was just a child when the US invaded after 9/11. Eventually, he enlisted in a CIA program that recruited locals for an initiative to field Afghan special operations units which the Taliban repeatedly accused of committing atrocities and war crimes against locals with the implicit blessing of the CIA. (The CIA denies this.)

It’s still unclear why Lakanwal, who was resettled in Washington state with his wife and children after Kabul fell to the Taliban again in August of 2021, took it upon himself to murder Beckstrom and critically wound Andrew Wolfe, the other Guardsmember victimized in the attack.

What’s clear as day is that Miller and Trump are going to leverage the tragedy to institute yet another sweeping crackdown on immigration including a “permanent pause” (which I’d be remiss not to note is a contradiction in terms) on migration “from all Third World Countries,” as Trump put it.

Trump didn’t define Third World Country, but it’s safe to say there’s a lot of overlap with his infamous “shithole country” category. He also promised to denaturalize anyone who attempts to disrupt “domestic tranquility” and alluded to rolling back scores of legal admissions granted during the Biden administration. “[A]nyone who is not a net asset to the United States,” will be removed, Trump said, as will anyone deemed “incapable of loving our Country.”

The administration will apparently review nearly 200,000 Afghan immigrants resettled in the US for suitability, many of whom earned their golden ticket by assisting the US in America’s longest war, a siege that killed an estimated 47,000 Afghan civilians.

In addition, Trump’s “reexamin[ing]” the Green Cards of “every alien from every country of concern,” as Immigration Services chief Joseph Edlow put it.

The new crackdown comes atop a hodgepodge of efforts to curb illegal and, in some cases, legal immigration during Trump’s second term, and that’s to say nothing of ICE’s nationwide deportation campaign which has drawn protests in cities across the country.

Responding to the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board which modestly suggested that Lakanwal’s actions shouldn’t be used as a justification for “collective punishment of all Afghans in the US,” Miller said, “This is the great lie of mass migration.”

“No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders,” Miller, who critics habitually liken to Joseph Goebbels, went on. “At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors of their broken homelands.”

“Tell me about it, white man,” said every Native American.