Colorado attacker overstayed his visa before Biden granted him two work permits
Fox News contributor Joe Concha has commended US President Donald Trump for his travel ban and has criticised the Biden administration for granting the man who committed an antisemitic attack in Colorado two work permits.
Trump has imposed a travel ban on citizens from 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, and Yemen, and has announced a partial ban on several more nations.
'We saw that recently in Boulder, Colorado, where a man who overstayed his visa from Egypt then got two work permits through the Biden administration, then declared asylum, which means you can stay longer … and then carried out what looked like a re-enactment of the Holocaust,' Mr Concha told Sky News host James Morrow.
'He literally tried to light elderly Jews on fire.'
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