Trump said his administration prevent terrorist group “sympathizers” from entering the country.
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” He added his administration would ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to identify regions in which “adequate screening (of immigrants) can not take place”. Just 29 percent of immigrants were opposed to Trump’s idea.
“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people”, he said.
He also proposed “extreme” ideological testing of immigrants trying to enter the United States so that those with “extremist sympathies or an insufficient embrace of American values” could be blocked. In a speech in OH, the candidate outlined his plans to combat Islamic extremism, including a new screening test for arrivals to the US.
Trump didn’t offer many specifics in his speech, raising a number of questions about how he would implement his proposals.
“Donald Trump, who previously said he wouldn’t disclose his strategy for defeating ISIS because he did not “want the enemy to know what I’m doing”, finally broke down and let the American public in on his plans in an uncharacteristically low-energy speech delivered in Ohio Monday afternoon”.
During a campaign speech near Cleveland on Monday afternoon, the billionaire said his intention to restrict migrants coming into the United States is meant to cut off a potential path for militants seeking to do harm on USA soil.
Ask Donald Trump whether his “extreme vetting” will work and his answer will be “trust me”. “What we’re doing by allowing tens of thousands of people in. we don’t know anything about, it’s going to happen again because there’s something wrong, and until we figure it out, we have to stop it”.
Part of the ideological test would weed out applicants who “do not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred”.
“I also believe that we could find common ground with Russian Federation in a fight against ISIS”. “Now, a different threat challenges our world: Radical Islamic Terrorism”, he explicates.
But to this day, U.S. immigration form DS-260 still asks would-be immigrants whether they are a “member of or affiliated with the Communist or other totalitarian party”.
Trump dedicated a chunk of his speech to decrying what he described as a decline in American security under President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee who was secretary of state in Obama’s first term. He went so far as to accuse Obama of being the “founder of ISIS” during a rally in Florida last week, though he later said it was a sarcastic remark.
Wolgin added that the United States broadened the restrictions in 1952 to include those affiliated with the Communist Party and other political groups in favor of overthrowing the USA government.
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Trump repeated his pledge to “temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most risky and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism” and said he would stop processing visas from countries where “adequate screening can not take place. until such time as it is deemed safe to resume based on new circumstances or new procedures”. That would result in a temporary halt in visas to residents from such regions.
