By Dan Gooding and Gabe WhisnantShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberFederal immigration agents have arrested an Afghan national in Virginia who entered the United States under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome program, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. DHS officials said the man, Jaan Shah Safi, is accused of providing support to ISIS-K and supplying weapons to his father, described as a militia commander in Afghanistan.
Safi came to the U.S. in 2021 and was taken into custody on Dec. 3, according to the department. His arrest is the latest in a series of detentions of Afghan nationals in recent days that has intensified political debate over the vetting of those admitted after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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