Donald Trump called for “extreme” ideological vetting of immigrants seeking admission to the United States, vowing to block those who sympathise with extremist groups or do not embrace American values.
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He vowed to be quick and decisive when attacking ISIS, and is calling for the temporary suspension of immigration from unsafe and volatile regions in the world where terrorism is frequent. He’ll also call for declaring in explicit terms that, like during the Cold War, the U.S.is in an ideological conflict with radical Islam.
They will be administered an “ideological screening test”, the Republican nominee said on Monday in a speech in OH, a battleground state, outlining his strategy against “radical Islam”. “I call it extreme, extreme vetting”, he proposed.
“If my son were still in Iraq, and I say to all those who are there, the threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks”, said Biden, who added Trump is “totally, thoroughly unqualified” to be president.
“I have previously said North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism”. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats.
“Beyond terrorism, as we have seen in France, foreign populations have brought their anti-Semitic attitudes with them”, he said.
The proposal follows his months-long call for a “total and complete” ban on foreign Muslims’ entering the US, which was also short on specifics. “I call it extreme, extreme vetting”, Trump said.
“Only those who we expect to flourish in our country – and to embrace a tolerant American society – should be issued immigrant visas”.
Trump first insisted that he meant this literally and then he called that “sarcasm”. In its place would be what he called a new approach, which he described simply as halting the spread of “radical Islam”.
The address comes during a trying stretch for Trump’s presidential campaign.
He said his administration would “aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS”, another name for IS, and be a “friend to all moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East”.
He added that he would work “very closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on the mission” of fighting IS and other Islamist groups. Still, he directly blamed the president and Clinton, who served as Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, for backing policies that “unleashed” the group, including withdrawing US troops from Iraq in late 2011.
But, amid much other nonsense and bluster, Trump struck on a kernel of truth: Against the better wisdom of others, Obama’s withdrawal enhanced the Islamic State’s opportunity to run rampant across northwestern Iraq and into Syria, and the tide is only now slowly turning against the militants.
Gingrich said that what made Trump’s speech even more impressive was that the candidate has received criticism for being unable to lay out a “road map” in any specific area of foreign policy, but that after this address such a judgement would be unwarranted.
We have always worked with Russian Federation and we will continue to work with Russian Federation, especially under Donald Trump. It will require the help of allies, many of whom Trump has alienated, and buy-in from Muslims, whom Trump has demonized. The policy manual for the manual for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services states, ‘An applicant who is hostile to the basic form of government of the United States, or who does not believe in the principles of the Constitution, is not eligible for naturalization’.
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It was not immediately clear if a briefing had been set up for Clinton, or when it would take place.
