The Department of Homeland Security heaped blame on the Biden administration Friday after revealing that two of the suspects charged with firing guns near a children’s baseball game in Texas this week were immigrants approved for status in 2021 and 2023.

Authorities said a coach was leading his team in prayer when shots rang out, striking the coach. Three men have been charged with deadly conduct with a firearm.

Homeland Security said two of them, Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah and Ahmad Mawed, were immigrants approved by the Biden administration.

Mr. Matalgah, from Jordan, was granted citizenship in 2023, despite what Homeland Security said were “prior arrests for drug possession.” Mr. Mawed, from Lebanon, was admitted in 2021 on a visa as a child of a citizen, which granted him immediate green card status.

Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the shooting “pure evil.”

“These individuals from high-threat counties were let in by the Biden administration. They clearly were not vetting the aliens they were letting legally enter our country and even become U.S. citizens,” Ms. McLaughlin said.

The owners of the field had described the incident as a “recreational shooting.”

The 27-year-old coach injured in the incident was taken to the hospital and released later that day, according to local news reports.

The shooting is the latest in a string of criminal entanglements where Homeland Security has revealed immigrants’ roles.

Earlier this week, the department exposed the illegal immigrant history of a man charged with strangling his infant sister in Loudoun County, Virginia.

The accused is Alvaro Mejia-Ayala, 21, who came to the U.S. in 2016, sneaking over the border and earning a quick catch-and-release. He was a juvenile and came as a “family unit,” meaning he showed up with at least one adult who said they were his parent.

Under a 2015 court ruling, he was required to be quickly processed and released.

The baby clung on for life for days before succumbing Tuesday.

“We pray for the innocent baby whose life was taken by the hands of a cold-blooded criminal illegal alien,” Ms. McLaughlin said. “Justice for this precious girl will prevail and this heinous monster will never be released on U.S. streets.”

• Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.