A number of Republican presidential candidates have said that Syrian refugees should be barred from entering the United States because the Obama administration can not determine whether they are aligned with the Islamic State. He has yet to state clearly that he is opposed to the idea of a registry, however.
Advertisement
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called the prospect of a registry “abhorrent”.
“It’s manipulating people’s angst and their fears”, he said on CNBC. Thats not strength, thats weakness. Still, the fact he’s open to one-and that so many people were willing to assume he wants one-shows just how terrifying Trump is.
“The idea that someone would have to register with the federal government due to their religion strikes against all that we have believed in our nation’s history”, he said. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., for recently proposing that the US only take in Christian refugees, and Ben Carson, for recently comparing Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs”. “That doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs”. But he disavowed the idea of a registry by religion. We are Americans, and we need to act like we’re Americans.
According to Yahoo, Trump also suggested he would consider no-warrant searches, saying, “We’re going to have to do things that we never did before”.
After going through Trump’s comments, Maddow stressed the importance of Trump being clear about whether or not he supports such a database.
A few hours later, the businessman said during the Fox News interview that he doesn’t “even know who (the reporter) was” and that he “couldn’t hear anything” because he was being asked to sign books after the rally.
Though Trump suggested in the tweet’s first sentence that he was not putting forth a formal proposal, his second sentence clearly states that surveillance and a “watch list” is necessary to protect Americans.
Trump, among the most outspoken of the 2016 presidential candidates on illegal immigration, also said that if elected he would make Syrians resettled in the US leave the country. And we’re not going to be the stupids anymore. When I look at those migration – and when I look at the migration and the lines and I see all strong, very powerful looking men, they’re men, and I see very few women, I see very few children, there’s something odd going on.
NBC News asked the candidate Thursday night whether there should be a “database system that tracks Muslims” in the country.
Civil liberties experts said a database for Muslims would be unconstitutional on several counts. Asked how that differed from efforts last century to track Jews in Nazi Germany, he said: “You tell me”.
The attacks have shed particular light on the GOP field, and the divide between politicians and the two front-runners with no political experience.
Advertisement
And on Thursday the House of Representatives easily passed a bill that would halt the programme unless further security checks were imposed. Legal scholars added that the move would violate the U.S. Constitution’s protection of religious freedom.
