Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump seized on the weekend attacks in New York, New Jersey, and Minnesota to promote his anti-immigration proposals as a national security agenda and return his campaign to the familiar terrain of terrorism a week before the first presidential debate.
And revelations Monday that at least 858 people that had been ordered deported or removed under another name were improperly granted United States citizenship due to a failure to maintain adequate fingerprint records, according to a new report, will be used by critics of the immigration system to bolster his claims of the need for reform.
On Aug. 31, he said, that, if elected, he would suspend immigration from “places like Syria and Libya” and would order a list of regions and countries be drawn up from which “immigration must be suspended until proven and effective vetting mechanisms can be put into place”.
On Sept. 19, 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested on suspicion he had planted the bombs in NY and New Jersey. The Republican nominee lamented that Rahami is likely to receive modern medical treatment and access to a lawyer.
“Now we will give him incredible hospitalization”. He will be taken care of by some of the best doctors in the world.
“We are a generation that’s struggled since the economic crash of 2008”, Kenyatta said. “And on top of all of that, he will be represented by an outstanding lawyer”.
The same day, Trump called for law enforcement to racially profile Muslim Americans. We can not let it go on. Four in 10 Trump supporters say at least 20 minutes should be devoted to it; almost one in five Clinton voters say the same. “We will not defeat it with closed eyes or silent voices. Anyone who can not name our enemy is not fit to lead this country”.
Clinton, who has said Trump’s campaign was fueled by “prejudice and paranoia” and that the white supremacists who support his candidacy were a “basket of deplorables”, refused to let Trump off the hook with his proclamation last week that he would no longer question that Obama was born in Hawaii. Recent polls have shown third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein cutting deeply into Clinton’s support with these young voters. “She is a weak and ineffective person”. “We want a president like Hillary Clinton who will tackle progressive issues like raising the minimum wage, addressing student debt, enacting criminal justice reform, and combating climate change”. “I knew this was going to happen”, he added. “And over the coming weeks, the campaign will continue to host discussions in communities on how Hillary Clinton is fighting for them”. “And I will tell you, if you choose Donald Trump (in the November elections), these problems are going to go away”. The Democratic nominee said Trump’s rhetoric has drawn the attention of ISIS recruiters “looking to make this into a war against Islam rather than a war against jihadists, violent terrorists …” she said, noting her discussions 10 days ago with a group of national security experts from both parties.
Clinton went on to note that Trump’s comments have been used for the recruitment of terrorists online, according to former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden.
In her own campaign ads, Clinton ridicules Trump’s comment that: “I know more about ISIS than the generals”. While she calls his voters “deplorable”, she gives radical Islam a free pass.
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Trump, who has in the past talked of the need for a resumption of harsh interrogation tactics like waterboarding for terrorism suspects, said authorities need to “get information” from the bombing suspect “before it comes no longer timely”, but that instead he would probably be coddled. Trump has in the past voiced support for bringing back waterboarding as an interrogation tactic.
