Extract from ABC News
Donald Trump has used a Thanksgiving post on Truth Social to say his administration will work towards permanently pausing all migration from "Third World Countries". (AP: Evan Vucci)
In short:
US President Donald Trump has said on Truth Social that he wants his administration to work towards pausing all migration from "Third World" countries.
Mr Trump has also used two posts on the platform to lob personal insults at Democrats Tim Walz and Somali American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
The Department of Homeland Security says Mr Trump has ordered a widespread review of asylum cases approved under former US president Joe Biden's administration and green cards issued to citizens of 19 countries.
US President Donald Trump says his administration will work to permanently pause migration from all "Third World Countries" to allow the American system to fully recover.
Mr Trump also said on social media platform Truth Social that he would end all federal benefits and subsidies to "noncitizens", adding that he would "denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any foreign national who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western civilization".
His comments came following the death of a National Guard member on Thursday after being shot near the White House in an ambush that investigators say was carried out by an Afghan national.
Mr Trump did not identify any countries by name or explain what he meant by Third World countries or "permanently pause".
He said the plan would include cases approved under former president Joe Biden's administration.
"I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden's Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States," Mr Trump's post said.
UN agencies appealed to Washington to continue allowing asylum seekers access to the country and to be given due process, Reuters reported.
"We expect all countries, including the United States, to honour their commitments under the 1953 Refugee Convention," said Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesperson for the UN secretary general.
UN human rights office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told a Geneva press briefing: "They are entitled to protection under international law, and that should be given due process."
Personal insults directed at Democrats
Over two long and rambling posts, Mr Trump also took aim at Democrats.
"The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst 'Congressman/woman' in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the USA illegally," he posted.
"In that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how 'badly' she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country."
Mr Walz has a son with a learning disability.
Ms Omar, who represents Minnesota, is the first Somali American in Congress.
A week ago, Mr Trump called for an end to the temporary protected status of Somali people in Minnesota, blaming them for a surge in crime in the state.
He posted on Truth Social that Minnesota was a "hub of fraudulent money laundering activity".
Minnesota Republican members of Congress have written a letter, seeking an investigation into claims that their state's taxpayers were funding terrorist groups in Somalia.
Ilhan Omar says categorising all Somalis as criminal because of the actions of a few is unreasonable. (Reuters: Tim Evans)
Ms Omar pushed back, saying that in the US, the lawlessness of an individual should not be blamed on a community.
"Because if you believe in law and order, you understand that if a person commits a crime, they face justice," she said, adding that Mr Trump had provided no evidence for his claim that money from Minnesota had aided terrorism.
"That language is dangerous.
"That language puts the lives of Somalis, not only in Minnesota, but across the country in danger."
Trump orders review of green cards from 19 countries
The White House and US Citizenship and Immigration Services did not immediately respond to requests for comment about migration.
Earlier, officials from the Department of Homeland Security said Mr Trump had ordered a widespread review of asylum cases approved under Mr Biden's administration and green cards issued to citizens of 19 countries.
The alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Mr Trump, according to a US government file.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services on Wednesday stopped processing all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals indefinitely.
ABC/Reuters
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