The U.S. has “no idea” of the possible threat posed by some Afghan nationals admitted to the U.S. during the Biden administration, according to Sen. Josh Hawley.  

About 200,000 Afghans were allowed into the U.S. during and after the U.S. withdrawal from the country in 2021 under President Joe Biden.

Among those paroled, “we have no idea of their potential terrorist connections, and in many cases, we now have no idea where they are or what they’re doing, who they’re connected with, or what they’re capable of,” Hawley, R-Mo., said Wednesday at a Senate hearing on Biden’s Afghan parolee program.  

“Sadly, we’ve seen what some of them are capable of,” Hawley said, referring to Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghan male charged with the shooting of two National Guard members in D.C. in November that killed one and seriously injured the other.  

The Biden administration’s parolee program for Afghans was “hastily arranged,” Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, told members of the Senate subcommittees on border........

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