Cruz, whose hometown of Houston has the largest Muslim population in Texas, didn’t specify what constituted a Muslim neighborhood or what the new law enforcement powers he is calling for would entail – just that “we need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized”.
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Trump told Fox. In a separate interview regarding the attacks, Trump told CBS News that the USA was receiving “undocumented” individuals who might be “ISIS-related”, referring to those who travel to the US from the Middle East.
Cruz also criticized President Barack Obama for what he called “political correctness”.
Trump, who has proposed a temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering the US, said “nothing’s nice” about techniques such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning.
The freshman Texas senator, who’s running second to a tough-talking Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican polls, cited ISIS-directed attacks on Brussels’ airport and metro system as cause for stepped up monitoring of Muslims in America, who may be prone to radicalization.
“We have to change our laws and we have to be able to fight on an nearly equal basis”, Trump said Tuesday arguing in favor of torture and pointing to ISIS’ far more brutal treatment of its prisoners.
Republican presidential candidates seized on the terror bombings in Brussels Tuesday to demand that Muslim refugees be kept out of the United States, blaming Europe’s open immigration policies for the outrage.
He added, “The last thing we need is more polarization”. “We need to elect a commander-in-chief with the temperament and judgment to respond wisely to the threat of terrorism and global unrest, not a demagogue who defaults to militaristic escalation and racial or religious profiling”. The Pennsylvania lawmaker said Trump has the ability to attract frustrated Democrats and independents and has the best chance to beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in November.
He charged, “Donald Trump is wrong that America should withdraw from the world and abandon our allies”.
Clinton and Ohio Gov. John Kasich struck more sober poses as they sought to position themselves as potential presidents and to differentiate themselves from Trump. I mean it’s hard to believe. “We are spending a tremendous amount in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and other people proportionately less – no good”. Security services across western Europe had been on a high state of alert for fear of attacks backed by the IS.
“The days of the United States voluntarily surrendering to the enemy to show how progressive and enlightened we are at an end”, Cruz wrote.
At least 31 people died in the Brussels region attack, according to The Washington Post. “I would’ve flown home, I would’ve conducted calls jointly with heads of state and gone to assemble teams of people, intelligence experts, who can take a look at the serious breaches that we have in intelligence”.
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Soon after news of the attacks broke, presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted, “Do you all remember how lovely and safe a place Brussels was”.
