An Afghani was allowed to enter the country by the Bidens who was arrested after being convicted of child exposure
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FIRST ON FOX: An Afghan national who entered the country during the Biden administration has been arrested by the Department of Homeland Security following a conviction for exposing a minor.
Basir Ahmad Safi, 30 years old, was arrested by DHS on March 11, according to the agency. Prior to his conviction for exposure to a minor, Safi was charged with lewd or lascivious exhibition, electronic solicitation of a child, unlawful use of a two-way communication device and child abuse.
He was brought into the country in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome of former President Joe Biden, according to the agency. Two years later, in September 2023, Safi was arrested in Florida by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on those charges.
In an emailed statement to Fox News Digital, DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis criticized the Biden administration for allowing “this unchecked practice of Afghan torture” in the US.
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The Homeland Security Department arrested Basir Ahmad Safi last week. Safi was allowed to enter the US under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome and was later convicted of child exposure. (Matt Kelley/AP Photo; DHS)
“He should not have been allowed to enter our country or given the opportunity to prey on innocent children,” Bis wrote.
DHS said Safi was arrested as part of a joint investigation by Homeland Security Investigations Jacksonville and US Citizenship and Immigration Services. At the time of his arrest, Safi’s status had been revoked, and he was living in the US illegally, DHS said. Safi is being held in ICE custody pending removal.
This comes after Rahmanullah Lakanwal, one of the Afghans allowed to enter the country under Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome, shot two US National Guard soldiers in Washington, DC. Another, Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, was seriously injured but survived.
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An undated file photo of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, DC, November 26, 2025. (Courtesy of the Department of Justice)
According to DHS, the Biden-era Operation Allies Welcome relied on “unscreened transfers” to allow nearly 190,000 Afghans into the country. The agency said those brought into the US include terrorists, rapists, child abusers, domestic abusers and kidnappers.
DHS said that “in recognition of this grave threat to America’s national security,” President Donald Trump suspended Biden’s Afghan refugee resettlement program shortly after returning to the Oval Office. Months later, Trump suspended the entry of all Afghans into the US
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Bis said “under President Trump’s leadership, DHS has been focused on identifying, arresting and removing threats to public safety like Basir Ahmad Safi from our country.”
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A spokesman for former President Biden did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Stephen Sorace of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
