{"id":75487,"date":"2025-12-03T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/dec\/03\/trump-national-guard-shooting-anti-immigration-push"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:00:33","slug":"trump-is-using-a-tragic-shooting-to-demonize-millions-mohamad-bazzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75487","title":{"rendered":"Trump is using a tragic shooting to demonize millions | Mohamad Bazzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administration is heightening its anti-immigrant crackdown \u2013 and punishing people from a country the US helped destroy<\/p>\n<p>After two national guard members were ambushed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/washington-dc\">Washington DC<\/a> last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> went on a hate-filled social media rant and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/28\/trump-says-he-will-permanently-pause-migration-from-third-world-countries-after-national-guard-shooting\">vowed to<\/a> \u201cpermanently pause migration from all Third World countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s late night <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1994262111145365516\">Thanksgiving posts<\/a> devolved into a fury, evidently because the suspected gunman is an Afghan national. He had worked with the US government, including the CIA, and was evacuated to the US in 2021 after the American military withdrew from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor, at New York University<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/dec\/03\/trump-national-guard-shooting-anti-immigration-push\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration is heightening its anti-immigrant crackdown \u2013 and punishing people from a country the US helped destroyAfter two national guard members were ambushed in Washington DC last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,415,61,554,1083,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-donald-trump","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trump-administration","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75487\/revisions\/75497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}