Donald Trump on Monday delivered his most extended foreign policy speech to date, vowing to “extinguish” the “ideology of death” espoused by Islamic State and other terrorists, and to impose a new ideological test for immigrants wishing to enter the United States.
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As president, he said, he would ask the US State Department and Department of Homeland Security to identify regions of the world that remain hostile to the US and where screening might not be sufficient to catch those who pose a threat. “I call it extreme vetting”, Trump said.
“Only those who we expect to flourish in our country and to embrace a tolerant American society should be issued visas”, he continued, arguing that the U.S.
“We can not allow the internet to be used as a recruiting tool, and for other purposes, by our enemy – we must shut down their access to this form of communication, and we must do so immediately”.
An ideological purity test to screen out immigrants with sympathies toward radical Islam has been proposed by Donald Trump in a sharp escalation of what he claimed is a religious war with the west.
Vice President Joe Biden has trashed Donald Trump as unqualified for the White House and accused him of endangering the lives of U.S. troops, during his first campaign appearance alongside Hillary Clinton.
Trump also said he would like to find common ground with Russian Federation, so they could work with the United States to defeat ISIS.
“We can not let this evil continue”, Trump said.
Trump implied that the test would question whether immigrants want to implement Islamic law in the U.S., a fear commonly voiced by some conservatives.
“The support networks for radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and removed one by one, viciously, if necessary”.
“All actions should be oriented around this goal and any country which shares this goal will be our ally”, Trump said.
Trump is expected to spend significant time going after Obama and Clinton, the former secretary of state, blaming them for policies he argues allowed the Islamic State group to spread.
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It’s the latest version of Mr. Trump’s controversial immigration policy, which began in December as a call to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from entering into the country. In a shift, Trump also said he wanted to work with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance he previously called obsolete, to root out terrorism.
Pew polling shows that in numerous countries from which we draw large numbers of immigrants, extreme views about religion – such as the death penalty for those who leave the faith – are commonplace.
Reiterating a favorite criticism of Republicans, Trump also panned the Obama administration for not using the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” to describe sympathizers.
Trump said that there are “many such regions”, but did not name them specifically. He later said he was only calling on them to organize as a voting bloc.
Trump once again declined to say which countries would fall on that list, as he claimed he wants to “build bridges and erase divisions” between different groups. McCaffrey said in an interview with CNBC’s “Closing Bell “.
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Trump’s call to work with Muslim allies comes against a backdrop of fierce criticism and condemnation of the Republican candidate from Muslims in the U.S. and overseas since December, when he proposed “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”.
