(Just The News)—Federal and local law enforcement officers have been arresting Afghan men since they were released into the country by the Biden administration in 2021.
Key arrests made major headlines this past week after one Afghan national was charged with shooting two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., killing one. The day before, a terrorist plot was foiled in Fort Worth where an Afghan man was arrested with the help of Texas Department of Public Safety. Not soon after, an Afghan man was arrested in Virginia, accused of providing support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
They were all released into the U.S. through Biden administration Operation Allies Welcome or Operation Allies Refuge in 2021, authorities said. The programs facilitated taxpayer-funded flights of many unvetted Afghan nationals into the U.S. after the Biden administration’s deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country in August 2021. As the withdrawal occurred, an Afghan-ISIS attack killed 13 U.S. service members.
Despite the attack, more than 77,000 Afghans were released into the country who weren’t properly vetted, according to a 2022 Office of Inspector General report. The OIG warned the administration “may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.”
Once in the country, multiple Afghan men were initially arrested on a range of sexual crime charges including at U.S. military bases where they were being held, The Center Square reported. As the border crisis worsened, Afghans also illegally entered through the southwest border, including those arrested by Texas authorities. An ISIS-linked terrorist attack was foiled in Houston, however an ISIS-connected attack successfully killed 15 in New Orleans, injuring an additional 50, this year.
“The Biden administration created one of the worst and most complex national security crises in American history, which the Trump administration has been working every day since January 20 to clean up,” the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.
DHS highlighted other recent ICE arrests of Afghan men released into the U.S. in 2021 through Operations Allies Refuge or Operation Allies Welcome.
Two recent arrests were in October, including Asirullah Khalid-Khan, whose criminal history includes a conviction on a kidnapping charge and an arrest on a sexual assault–rape charge; and Mansour Walizada, whose criminal history includes two convictions of sexual battery and an arrest on a child fondling charge.
In August, ICE arrested Qesmat Din Zafran, whose criminal history includes a conviction on a charge of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor under 16. In July, ICE arrested Said Mohammad Tanai, whose criminal history includes a conviction for assault with intent to commit sex abuse.
In May, ICE took custody of Javid Ghamgeen, who was incarcerated with the Iowa Department of Corrections. His criminal history includes convictions of two counts of possession of methamphetamine, burglary, and aggravated assault against a public officer.
“When Joe Biden let 190,000 Afghan nationals in, the [administration] didn’t do criminal background checks or vet social media, someone just vouched for them and they took the words as truth,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. “We are working around the clock to get these public safety threats out of our country.”
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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