MAJOR UPDATE: On November 26th, 2025 President Trump announced that all undocumented Afghan migrants who entered the United States under the Biden administration will have their status reexamined, the pool potentially affected could number in the tens of thousands to low-hundreds of thousands depending on how broadly "undocumented" or "status-expired" is defined.
Trump's order would directly touch are the Afghans brought into the United States under Operation Allies Refuge and its follow-on reception pipelines in 2021 and 2022.
The number is about 76,000 Afghans recorded as legally entering the U.S. no records indicate how many have remained illegally or entered the southern border illegally.
The directive was issued immediately after authorities identified the Farragut West gunman as a 29-year-old Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the US in 2021 and whose permission to remain reportedly expired in September 2025.
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