“Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into the country”, Trump said.
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“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.
The new proposal will include a ban for citizens of countries affected by terrorism, but did not specify which ones; screening new arrivals to make sure their “ideologies” align with “American values”; keeping open the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison; launching a commission into Islamic terrorism; forming alliances with nations fighting IS; and working with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which he previously called “obsolete”.
On Monday, he added a phrase to his policy lexicon: “extreme vetting”.
As president, he said, he would ask the US State Department and Department of Homeland Security to identify regions of the world that remain hostile to the United States and where screening might not be sufficient to catch those who pose a threat.
The senior campaign official declined to say exactly what such a test would look like, but said it could include a questionnaire to get potential immigrants on record about their views.
Trump more broadly criticized the Obama administration – and his Democratic rival, Clinton – saying their policies created a power vacuum in the Middle East that allowed ISIS to flourish.
Trump says that as soon as he takes office, he would ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to identify “a list of regions where adequate screening can not take place”.
Pence said Trump was making a “serious point” to call attention to the issue.
It may be that his controversial statements over the last month – including an apparent call for Russian Federation to hack United States servers to find Clinton’s missing emails, his musings about whether Second Amendment activists could stop her Supreme Court nominees if she were president or claims that Obama “founded” ISIS – have inflicted too much damage already for his message to resonate.
The new plan, unveiled during a campaign speech in OH, is a slight deviation from his previous proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the country outright. Trump had promised to release his list of “terror countries” soon.
Trump, a real estate tycoon seeking his first elected office, has for months said he would be tougher on jihadists in the Middle East than Obama, but has yet to spell out a specific plan of attack. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation invoked Article 5, its collective self-defense mechanism, for the first time in its history to offer support to the United States after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
“Trump is already making our country less safe”.
The senior campaign official who previewed Trump’s speech did not address Trump’s initial description of the ban, but described the current proposal as one of withholding visas for individuals from any country “where we can not perform adequate screenings” and where there is heavy terrorist activity.
But will his proposals strengthen U.S. national security? Instead of stereotyping the entire Islamic community he used the word “Radical” to mention a segment in Muslim society that may be responsible in purporting violence.
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Mr Ahmed describes his plan as “an act of security theatre”. The government would use “questionnaires, social media, interviews with friends and family or other means” to determine if applicants support USA values like tolerance and pluralism.
