Cruz, who is seeking the nomination in the Republican Party in the United States, said in a statement on Tuesday that authorities should implement the policy before those neighbourhoods “become radicalised”.
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Cruz wants to halt USA plans to bring in Syrian Muslims and vet them more thoroughly.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, responded to the Brussels terror attacks and set off a firestorm on social media Tuesday. Cruz said he would use the “full force and fury” of the USA m… “Because he probably knew about it. I would be willing to bet that he knew about this bombing that took place today”, Trump said.
Trump has previously called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, and has promised to crack down on immigration.
“We’ve got to work this through consistent with our values”, she told NBC, adding that interrogators “do not need to resort to torture, but they are going to need more help”. “We have to be very vigilant as to who we allow in this country”, Trump said on Fox News.
Bratton made the point there are now about 900 Muslim police officers of the New York Police Department and said he took “great offense” at Cruz’s remarks.
Trump said the city had had “the finest surveillance of the whole radical Islam situation that there is”.
In the past, his GOP rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, also has attributed the idea of “political correctness” in voicing his own anti-Muslim sentiments.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, condemned the call for surveillance, saying it sends “an alarming message to American-Muslims who increasingly fear for their future in this nation”.
He said Trump “is wrong that America should withdraw from the world and abandon our allies”, noting that Brussels is headquarters to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Imam Abdisalam Adam, the board chair of Dar Al-Hijrah Riverside Islamic Center, a mosque in a Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis, said putting more scrutiny on Muslim communities is not a way to keep the country safe.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said Tuesday it was too early to tell whether there was a link between Abdeslam and Tuesday’s attacks, though two senior USA officials told CNN they believe the Brussels attack was carried out by the same terrorist network to which Abdeslam belonged. If you look at Facebook, Muslims are only talking about this. “[They] are the ones who should be calling the Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement to say, ‘Something suspicious is going on!'”
The series of deadly terrorist attacks that struck Brussels on Tuesday have the potential to reshape the US presidential race, placing a new emphasis on issues of national security and foreign policy as a result of the tragedy.
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Hillary Clinton described Trump’s call for closing the borders “unrealistic”, but urged increased police presence at soft targets, such as airport lobbies. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally Monday, March 21, 2016, in Salt Lake City.
