In his remarks, Trump struck a new, inclusive tone and tried to appeal directly to non-white voters, shown by polls to an overwhelmingly unfavorable view of the candidate.
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Painting a grim picture of a world under attack and a homeland threatened by terrorism, Trump argued only he could be trusted to confront the present dangers.
Yet again, he advocated for the temporary suspension of immigrants from “some of the most unsafe and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”, without naming those areas specifically.
“In addition to screening out all members or sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles – or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law”, he said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is calling for more thorough vetting of immigrants and visitors to the United States, including ideological tests.
To defeat ISIS, Trump proposed a “new immigration policy” with “new screening procedures”, similar to the ideological screening test used during the Cold War era.
Trump also said he plans to halt immigration from nations with a “history of exporting terrorism” until new procedures are implemented by the USA government to properly screen applications from those parts of the world.
“I call it extreme, extreme vetting”.
“As he laid out in his Orlando remarks, Mr. Trump will describe the need to temporarily suspend visa issuances to geographic regions with a history of exporting terrorism and where adequate checks and background vetting can not occur”, Miller said.
Trump named no countries but cited the number of immigrants from the Middle East as an example of the scope of the perceived problem. “We don’t need more”.
“This so-called policy can not be taken seriously”, senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
“How can Trump put this forward with a straight face when he opposes marriage equality and selected as his running mate the man who signed an anti-LGBT law in Indiana?” “It’s a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country and no one should fall for it”.
In his speech, Trump said that as president he would discard “nation-building”.
“She also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS”. Additional speeches with more details are expected in the weeks ahead, they said.
Trump has alluded to such ideas before, but he went further on Monday by writing the proposal into a major policy speech.
In the final months of his administration, Bush negotiated an agreement with the Iraqi government that called for all US troops to leave the country by December 2011.
Speaking at Youngstown State University in the critical swing state of OH on Monday [August 15, 2016], the real estate magnate made an attempt at interweaving newer ideas for changing America’s tactics on the battlefield with older ones that involve the seizing of Middle Eastern oil fields to combat terrorism.
He then echoed his controversial proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the United States, but his proposal is now aimed at those from specific regions rather than a specific religion.
The Clinton campaign responded to Trump’s immigrant-vetting proposal in harsh terms.
The official called on the State Department to release a list of individuals who had obtained visas to the USA since 2001 who have since “been charged, implicated or accused of terrorism” in order to determine which countries should be banned.
The presidential nominee also revealed that if he becomes president his administration would focus on opposing “oppression of women, gays and people of different faith”.
“We have no reason to bring someone into our country who is going to harbor that hostility”.
“We may have reached the point of no return for Donald Trump”, said Republican strategist Alex Conant, a senior aide to Florida Sen.
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“I have long said that we should have kept the oil in Iraq”, he said in Youngstown, Ohio.
