Zeid said the United States was founded on the dignity and rights of the individual, and the danger of classifying and categorizing people is that “it dehumanizes – it can lead to victimization of the innocent”.
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“It’s common sense and we have to do it”, Trump told his backers.
Democrats, meanwhile, blamed Republicans for Trump’s extreme language and warned it could help him with primary voters.
On Monday evening, the Republican Party chairmen of the three early voting states also lambasted his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States amid a spate of terror attacks.
The strongest reaction came in the United States, where White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump’s proposals were unconstitutional and challenged the mogul’s fellow Republicans to denounce him.
The Republican presidential front-runner has said he’d stick with the party, rather than launching an independent campaign for the presidency, as long as he is treated “fairly” in its nominating contest.
The White House today declared that Donald Trump disqualified himself from the presidential race with his proposal to block Muslims from entering the United States.
WMNF News requested an interview from three top Donald Trump campaign staffers in Florida but we did not hear back by air time. Earnest also said that the other Republican candidates – all of whom have pledged to support Trump if he becomes the party’s nominee – should condemn Trump “right now”.
LIASSON: This might be a little nit-picky, but in your prepared remarks you said something that struck me as very Trumpian and not very Obama-like, when you talked about Trump’s fake hair. “What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and more importantly, it’s not what this country stands for”. Now, Trump and others want us to hate all Muslims.
“In the meantime, he ends up occupying political positions exclusively that many support”, Limbaugh said. Trump, who in September declared “I love Muslims”, turned sharply against them after the Paris terrorist attacks, calling for a database to track Muslims in America.
EARNEST: I guess I was describing why it would be easy for people to dismiss the Trump campaign as not particularly serious.
Ryan criticized that idea in a private meeting with House Republicans Tuesday morning and afterward publicly at the party’s weekly leadership news conference on Capitol Hill.
“Nobody’s interested in selecting people exclusively on their religion or their faith”, said Dan Stein, president of the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform. “On one hand, they’re reminded that they’re Americans and then on the other hand they’re told to get out”, said Tabassum Haleem, of the Council of Islamic Organizations.
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One reporter asked Earnest in light of Trump’s comments if the president was going to do anything more than call for more tolerance toward Muslims.
