Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is expected to propose a political test for all immigrants wanting to come to the United States in order to assess their views on American values.
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“In Ohio, the Republican presidential nominee will lay out proposals to combat ISIS and prevent terrorist attacks in the USA, including banning individuals from countries with heavy terrorist footprints where the U.S. government can not adequately vet visa applicants and increasing cooperation with willing Middle Eastern allies, a senior Trump campaign official said”, CNN.com reports.
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump talked for almost an hour Monday afternoon about terrorism and his plans to defeat the terror group ISIS at Youngstown State University’s Kilcawley Center.
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio August 15, 2016.
“Any country that shares this goal will be our allies”, Trump said. Following a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June, Trump introduced a new standard, 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”.
“As soon as I take office, I will ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to identify a list of regions where inadequate screening can not take place”.
He would ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to decide which regions once he is elected. “If we don’t control the numbers, we can’t perform adequate screening”, Trump said.
“Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into our country”, he said in a foreign policy address in Youngstown, Ohio. “Crime has risen to levels they never thought they would ever, ever see”, Trump said.
“A Trump administration will establish a clear principle that will govern all decisions pertaining to immigration”, he said. The U.S. would stop issuing visas in any case where it can not perform adequate screenings.
The Republican nominee has made stricter immigration measures a central part of his proposals for defeating the Islamic State group, a battle he said on Monday is akin to the Cold War struggle against communism. And, yet, then, he insisted three times that the United States should “keep the oil” that exists in Iraq after committing troops to the country. On a day when the New York Times lead story dealt with the connections between Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort and Ukraine’s pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych, Trump might have skipped any Russia references as badly timed. Going by Trump’s speech, the whole region somehow fits into this category: “Radical Islam” is the root of honor killings in Pakistan, the perfidy of the Islamic State and other jihadist organizations in Syria and overseas, and the driving agenda of Iran, a country whose own proxy wars against Sunni extremist groups Trump conveniently forgot to mention.
Trump’s remarks follow controversial claims he made last week that Obama was a principal founder of the terrorist group – not figuratively through his policies, but quite literally.
The costs of an expansion of that system as Trump has proposed, she said, would likely be “extraordinary”. “Trump is also set to make clear in his prepared remarks that the USA will abandon any ambitions for nation-building or spreading democracy in the Middle East, expanding on his criticism of the Iraq War while on the campaign trail”.
Yes, Trump once again lied about being against the Iraq War from the start, even though he said he supported it back in 2002. “‘Based on what we know so far, Trump’s proposal is patently unlawful, unworkable and absurd on its face'”.
And of course, the ultimate irony is that anyone embracing Trump’s Muslim ban would be banned under this new policy!
But what he called the organization’s newly adopted approach to fighting terrorism had led him to change his mind and he no longer considered North Atlantic Treaty Organisation “obsolete”, Trump said.
Donald Trump on Monday talked in a measured voice.
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Trump also claimed that Clinton lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on ISIS.
