Nov. 28, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement thanking President Donald Trump for addressing the issue of refugee assimilation in response to the killing of National Guard Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom:
“The tragic shooting of Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe should have never happened. Because the refugees should have never been here in the first place. They were precipitated by the botched Iraq and Afghanistan military withdrawals of 2011 and 2021, respectively, that caused the collapse of those countries and, combined with relaxed refugee rules allowed for a mass exodus of millions of unassimilated refugees to Europe and the U.S. The result is we have imported jihad into the U.S., which is ironic since the goal of withdrawing from these military theatres was to ‘end’ the war. And yet that’s what happens when you bring people in from war zones without any vetting or assimilation. We learned nothing from 9/11, which was precipitated by relaxed student visas from unassimilable radical Islamists. The President is right to review and expand the current travel ban policies to look at those who were taken in prior to 2025 and, if necessary, to see to their removal. If you don’t love America, you shouldn’t live here.”
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