Even though most of the 2016 Republican candidates distanced themselves from Trump’s call for a “complete and total ban” on Muslims entering the United States, Clinton claimed they
harbor similar views.
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“What I’m doing is no different than FDR”, Trump said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” program.
Ben Carson again rejected Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, saying Tuesday that the government should focus on monitoring visitors and tracking Internet activity. And UC Riverside Muslim students say they have been called “ISIS” on and off campus. “You can’t just throw out notions without anybody checking on them”, Cuomo said.
Trump refuted the AP report on Twitter.
David Cameron’s spokesman said the PM believed Trump’s comments were “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”, while Jeremy Corbyn branded them an “affront to common humanity.’ Nicola Sturgeon labelled them “obnoxious… offensive” and Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said it illustrated why Trump was ‘utterly unsuited” for the role of President.
The front page of the Philadelphia Daily News pictured Trump holding his right hand out as if in a Nazi salute with the headline “The New Furor”.
Discrimination based on religion is against “every convention that we know of in aiding people in humanitarian emergencies and of course in resettlement”, Fleming said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how Trump proposes to enforce such a ban, which many constitutional scholars described as unconstitutional.
Trump announced his plan to cheers and applause at a Monday evening rally in SC.
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“We have no choice”, he said to cheers. They are here to talk about the Syrian refugee crisis.
“This is not a serious or well-thought-out policy proposal”, Reisinger said.
Asked if he will support Trump if he is his party’s presidential nominee, Ryan said he will support whomever the Republicans nominate for the presidency.
“It is un-Republican. It is unconstitutional”.
Rep. Randy Hultgren, an Illinois Republican who won his seat in the 2010 Tea Party wave, shared those concerns in a press release that criticized the mogul’s stance as a religious freedom problem. Trump’s comments feed into the message of ISIS and other terrorist groups that Muslims aren’t welcome in the US, he said.
In the late 1800s, Congress passed legislation broadly aimed at halting the immigration of Chinese laborers. So people of a particular religion may get favorable treatment by the United States, as when Russian Jews sought to leave the Soviet Union. The biggest buzz came from NY state, home of one of the largest Muslim populations in the country and the origin of 15 per cent of all mentions of Trump. Tuesday afternoon the mayor held a news conference with various city and religious leaders to condemn Trump’s statements as well as some anti-Muslim activities that have occurred here and across the nation. He has taken a particularly hard line against Muslims in the days since the Paris attacks, advocating enhanced surveillance of mosques due to fears over radicalization. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Republicans and Democrats, all condemned Trump’s anti-Muslim remarks.
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“We can not turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between America and Islam”.
