Donald Trump is calling for “extreme vetting” of immigrants seeking admission to the United States.
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He claims that the current U.S. strategy of nation-building and regime change is a failure and has created a vacuum that allows terrorists to grow and thrive.
“The fact of the matter is we have very sophisticated vetting programs in place”, she said, noting that the country has invested billions in improving systems and information sharing since the 9/11 attacks. And he said he would continue President Obama’s practice of killing the enemy with drone strikes.
“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people”, said Trump, proposing what he called an “ideological screening test”.
The part of Trump’s speech that has garnered the most attention is his call for “extreme vetting” of visa applicants, which would require them to pass an ideological litmus test.
Republican Donald Trump said on Monday he would work closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies to defeat ISIS militants if he wins the White House, reversing an earlier threat that the U.S. might not meet its obligations to the Western military alliance.
Vice President Joe Biden speaking at a campaign event with Hillary Clinton said that Mr Trump’s claim that Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton had “founded” IS proved his views to be “dangerous” and “un-American”, and that it had made USA soldiers in Iraq less safe already.
Trump’s unprecedented call in December 2015 “for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on” is still listed on his campaign website, and he has yet to personally denounce the controversial proposal.
He also challenged Clinton’s fitness to be president, declaring she lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on the Islamic State.
Donald Trump’s speech on foreign policy Monday focused in large part on his proposal to suspend immigration from risky parts of the world and impose a new system of “extreme vetting” that would subject applicants to questions about their personal ideology.
Reading from a teleprompter, Trump said Clinton did not have the judgment and character to lead the country.
Last year, Trump first announced his call for banning Muslims. He introduced a new standard following the June massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, vowing to “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats”. He had earlier promised to release his list of “terror countries” soon.
“They, too, have much at stake in the outcome in Syria, and have had their own battles with Islamic terrorism”, Trump said. But they have been unable to reach an agreement on which militant groups could be targeted. “We will partner with King Abdullah of Jordan and the president of Egypt, President Sisi, and all others who recognise this ideology of death that must be extinguished”, Trump said.
Adding to Trump’s woes this week was the news, first reported by the New York Times, that the name of his campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was on secret ledgers showing cash payments designated to him of more than $12 million from a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russian Federation. He said Monday that he never received any off-the-books payment.
The campaign stepped up criticism Monday by suggesting that Manafort pushed for pro-Russia changes to the Republican Party platform and by suggesting that several Trump advisers have links to Moscow. “I’d blow up every single inch, there would be nothing left”, he said in November”.
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He added that his five-year stint as a political consultant in Ukraine ended after that country’s elections in 2014.
