Vice President JD Vance has long cautioned about the U.S. refugee vetting process. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)
Vance also claimed that a Pew Research Center survey found that four in 10 Afghans believe suicide bombing is justified to protect Islam.
Fox News Digital could not independently confirm the existence of the poll. However, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, an American state-funded media organization, reported on the poll in 2013 with the same statistics.
Vance’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Afghanistan's top religious leaders that make up the Afghan Ulema Council have previously issued Islamic rulings to ban suicide attacks, and have claimed such attacks aren't in alignment with Islamic teachings.
More recently, Vance voiced similar concerns in an interview with CBS’s Margaret Brennan in January, where he said that "we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country."
File photo of National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom who died following a shooting incident in Washington D.C., on the evening of Nov. 26, 2025. (Department of Justice)
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In response to the shooting, Trump said in a Thursday social media post that he would permanently pause migration from "all Third World Countries."
Additionally, the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph Edlow, said Thursday that in accordance with orders from Trump, he has "directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern."
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The White House did not provide additional information regarding which countries would be impacted, and referred Fox News Digital to Trump’s social media post.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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