The horrific terrorist attack on National Guard members Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe by a 29-year-old Afghan national has rightly prompted the Trump administration to order a re-vetting of all Afghan nationals who were admitted into the United States since 2021 and a reinvestigation of all immigrants from 19 nations with a high terrorism nexus, including Afghanistan.

However, a small cadre of self-appointed “Afghan rescuers” has sought to paint this terrorist attack as an unfortunate outlier — a byproduct of post-traumatic stress disorder, mental illness, personal vendetta, or statistics — rather than the predictable result of a compromised U.S. vetting process and former President Joe Biden-era open-border immigration policies.