Donald Trump has found in the shooting of two soldiers in Washington the springboard from which to advance his campaign to close the United States to immigrants. Although the focus until now has been on the pursuit and deportation of undocumented immigrants, the US administration has also been approving a series of measures to make it more difficult for immigrants of any kind to enter the country. Now, after Private Sarah Beckstrom died from a gunshot wound allegedly inflicted by a young Afghan man on Wednesday, the US president has announced that he will stop the entry of immigrants from the "Third World" and that he will "denaturalize" those who are "incompatible with civility." "I will denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic peace and deport any alien who is a public charge, a security risk, or incompatible with Western civilization," the US president wrote on Truth Social, without detailing how or according to what criteria he would do so. In the same post, besides saying he would "permanently" stop immigration from the "Third World," he also hinted that he would end all legal permits granted during the Joe Biden administration.

The day before Donald Trump announced the deployment of the National Guard in WashingtonThe city looked like any other Sunday in August. It wasn't the stifling, humid heat of the capital's summer, and the breeze was breezy, which was welcome. Many terraces on 14th Street, one of its main thoroughfares, which runs north to south, were packed.