In the wake of the deadly shooting targeting National Guard members in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, President Donald Trump made a stunning announcement that one legal expert says is about to spark a wave of chaos and confusion for thousands.
On Thursday, Trump made the unprecedented announcement that he had ordered U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement to review every Green Card holder “from every country of concern,” a list of 19 countries his administration named in June.
With around 12.7 million Green Card holders in the United States, immigration attorney and legal expert Curtis Morrison warned that with the announcement, things could soon spiral out of control.
“My fellow immigration attorney colleagues and me are about to receive thousands of panicked emails from good people freaking out on behalf of their friends and families,” Morrison wrote late Thursday in a social media post on X. “Let’s take a deep breath. We will get through this.”
Among those countries of concern is Afghanistan, also where the suspected shooter lawfully immigrated from in the wake of the United States’ 2021 withdrawal from the country under the Biden administration.
There are more than 190,000 Afghans alone who had immigrated to the United States since 2021, and while there lacks comprehensive data on the amount of Green Card holders from the remaining countries of concern, data does suggest the number to be in the hundreds of thousands, or potentially more than a million, all of whom will now be subject to having their immigration status reviewed or revoked.
The deadly shooting Wednesday saw two National Guard members shot, with the suspected perpetrator being a 29-year-old Afghan migrant, and one who was confirmed to have worked for the CIA amid the United States’ occupation of Afghanistan. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, ultimately died from her injuries, and the other shooting victim, Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition.
Controversial Trump ally Laura Loomer had a simple response to the warning from Morrison:
“We are done caring about immigrants,” she wrote on Friday.
My fellow immigration attorney colleagues and me are about to receive thousands of panicked emails from good people freaking out on behalf of their friends and families.
Let’s take a deep breath. We will get through this. https://t.co/DdTnTtaigG
— Curtis Morrison (@curtismorrison) November 28, 2025
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