Trump did not clarify how US officials would assess the veracity of responses to the questionnaires or how much manpower it would require to complete such arduous vetting.
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Russian Federation and the US have been discussing greater coordination in Syria, where IS is part of a volatile mix of groups fighting for power.
“My answer is it’s a decision between two alternatives and when you’re looking at the alternative, it’s an easy decision”, he said. “This would be additional to all other non-refugee immigration”. He did not elaborate on how he plans to implement all his proposed policies.
What are existing USA immigration requirements?
“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people”, Trump told an audience at Youngstown State University in OH as he indicated his idea was drawn from the country’s not too distant past.
The National Visa Center then begins to process the application – which can take up to three weeks – before handing off documentation to the appropriate U.S. embassy or consulate overseas.
Interviews are conducted by a U.S. consular officer overseas, during which time digital fingerprint scans are also taken.
Mr Trump also sought to moderate his immigration control plans.
Here’s what they are saying about Trump’s speech. But it took three years before IS emerged in Iraq and Syria, and there is no connection between those developments.
At Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, highlighted America’s threats-and criticized the architects of its current foreign policy-before revealing the tenets of his foreign policy plan.
He added that, ‘To put these new procedures in place, we will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most unsafe and volatile regions in the world that have a history of exporting terrorism’.
The suggestion comes months after Trump first suggested a blanket ban on all Muslims entering the United States until leaders could solve terrorism related problems.
Trump suggested the course of history would have been different had the US taken a more colonial approach to Iraq, keeping control of that country’s oil supply following the 2003 invasion.
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, a senior policy adviser to Trump, described Trump’s strategy as “foreign policy realism”, while Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Trump should take a USA naturalisation test himself as he prepares to propose new political hurdles for immigrants coming to the country.
“In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test”, Trump told an energized crowd. But he did advocate a new ideological test for newcomers, backed by what he described as “extreme vetting”. But Trump gave no details on how his extreme vetting process would be accomplished and by who, let alone what the vetting would entail.
The adviser continued, “We have no reason to bring someone into our country who is going to harbor that hostility”. “We should only admit into the country those who share our values and respect our people”.
THE FACTS: Trump seems to be confusing Obama and Clinton’s limited interventions, and sometimes non-interventions, with President George W. Bush’s post-9/11 regime-change efforts.
Trump did not identify the specific countries from which he said the Clinton Foundation accepted donations. He’s struggled to stay on message and build a consistent case against Democrat Hillary Clinton, repeatedly roiling the White House race with provocative comments that have deeply frustrated many in his own party.
If this was the Cold War, when people were being vetted for ties to Communists, would Trump pass with his admiration for former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin?
It is unclear how his proposal would be enforced, or how it would stop prospective terrorists from lying on questionnaires.
The point of Trump’s address was obviously to foment fear, and to offer his authoritarian remedy, a test to determine who among immigrants believe differently than he or his followers do. Those immigrants who declare their hostility for American law and their contempt for pluralism won’t be allowed in.
To this day, the United States maintains its call for a Syria without Assad, even as it works with the Syrian leader’s closest partners to try to engineer a unity government that would keep Assad in power, perhaps indefinitely. But so many other people can be wrapped up in this.
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But to this day, United States immigration form DS-260 still asks would-be immigrants whether they are a “member of or affiliated with the Communist or other totalitarian party”.
