Third Afghan national from Biden-era program arrested in a week by ICE agents in Virginia: DHS

FIRST ON FOX: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents person arrested Afghan nationalist Jaan Shah Safi – an alleged ISIS-K protagonist brought into the state nether erstwhile President Joe Biden's Operation Allies Welcome – successful Waynesboro, Virginia.

The apprehension comes arsenic President Donald Trump and his medication face a surge of panic cases tied to Afghan arrivals that occurred nether the Biden administration.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Safi arrived successful the U.S. connected Sept. 8 2025, successful Philadelphia.

He applied for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), though his exertion was terminated erstwhile DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ended TPS for Afghans.

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Jaan Shah Safi, a suspected ISIS-K terrorist, who was arrested by ICE, according to an announcement made connected Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (DHS)

ICE agents arrested Safi connected Wednesday.

"Today, our heroic ICE officers arrested Jaan Shah Safi, a violent who provided worldly enactment to ISIS-K," Noem said successful a quality release. "The Biden Administration brought this violent into the U.S. nether the disastrous Operation Allies Welcome program. This violent was arrested miles from our nation’s superior wherever our brave National Guard heroes, Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe, were changeable conscionable days agone by different unvetted Afghan violent brought into our country.

"The Biden Administration created 1 of the worst nationalist information crises successful American history. Biden fto into our state astir 190,000 unvetted Afghan aliens – lone determining who they were and their intentions erstwhile they were already connected American soil," she continued. "President Trump has been moving each time since January 20 to cleanable up this unmitigated nationalist information crisis."

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Refugees from Afghanistan are escorted to a waiting autobus aft arriving and being processed astatine Dulles International Airport successful Dulles, Va., Aug. 23, 2021. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images)

The DHS accused the Biden medication of relying connected unvetted referrals to admit astir 190,000 Afghan nationals into the U.S.

The Trump medication enactment a halt to Afghan exile resettlement aft Trump returned to the Oval Office successful January, arsenic it saw the programme arsenic a monolithic menace to nationalist security.

Safi’s apprehension marks the 3rd apprehension of an Afghan nationalist who was released into the state nether Biden successful little than a week, according to DHS.

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Undated record photograph of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the fishy successful the shooting of 2 National Guard soldiers successful Washington, D.C., Nov. 26. (Provided by Department of Justice)

On Nov. 26, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who was besides released into the U.S. nether Operation Allies Welcome, allegedly committed a panic and ambush-style onslaught connected 2 National Guard members, sidesplitting one, conscionable blocks from the White House.

On Nov. 25, conscionable a time earlier the attack, Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was arrested by section authorities and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force aft allegedly making weaponry threats successful Fort Worth, Texas.

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Alokozay allegedly posted a video of himself connected TikTok indicating helium was gathering a bomb, DHS said, and his intended people was the Fort Worth area.

Alokozay, who was besides released into the U.S. nether Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome, has been charged with making terroristic threats.