Afghan National Arrested For Allegedly Threatening To Blow Up Building One Day Before National Guard Shooting, DHS Says

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An Afghan national was arrested for allegedly threatening to blow up a building in Texas one day before two National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C., the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.

“Just one day before the Terrorist attack against our @NationalGuard, another Afghan national who was paroled into the United States under Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome was arrested for threatening to blow up a building in Fort Worth,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

“Mohammad Dawood Alokozay posted a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area. He was arrested on Tuesday by the Texas Department of Public Safety and FBI JTTF and charged with making Terroristic Threats. @ICEgov has lodged a detainer,” she continued.

More from FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth:

Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was booked into the Tarrant County Jail Tuesday on charges of making a terroristic threat.

According to DHS, Alokozay came into the United States as part of Operation Allies Welcome under the Biden administration. He was admitted to the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident on Sept. 7, 2022.

Fox News shared a breaking alert:

“The magnitude of the national security crisis Joe Biden unleashed on our country over the span of four years cannot be overstated. President Trump has directed his entire team to continue rooting out this evil within our borders,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Under Operation Allies Welcome, hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals have resettled in the United States.

CNN explained:

Most Afghans who arrived under Operation Allies Welcome were allowed to enter and remain in the US for two years, with no permanent immigration status. More than 40% of the migrants admitted in the program were eligible for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) because they took great risks to help the US, or were related to someone who did, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

One year later, the program was renamed “Enduring Welcome,” as the US pivoted to a long-term strategy focused on helping Afghans with SIVs and through the existing US refugee admissions program.

Over 190,000 Afghans have resettled in the US under both Operation Allies Welcome and Enduring Welcome, according to the State Department.

In recent years, the issue of resettling Afghans has become politically fraught, and application processing has slowed, leaving thousands of vulnerable people in limbo in third countries like Pakistan.

An estimated 260,000 Afghans have applied to come to the US and are still waiting, according to Shawn VanDiver, president of AfghanEvac, an organization which relocates and resettles Afghan people. Many of them are in Afghanistan and face persecution by the Taliban, he told CNN.



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