“What (Trump) was speaking of was an entire population but this also impacts the refugee programme”, she said.
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Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, made the provocative remarks regarding Muslims after last week’s shooting that left 14 dead in California by a Muslim couple said to have been radicalized.
On Tuesday, Trump defended his plan even as a growing chorus of critics, including other Republicans, rejected it.
Fresno Islamic Cultural Center Imam Seyed Ali Ghazvini says Trump has gone too far.
Trump said he would temporarily suspend the entry of Muslims until the country can assess the terrorist threat.
Trump drew controversy after he issued a statement Monday saying the United States should bar all Muslims from entering the country until the nation can “figure out what is going on”.
A spokesperson for No. 10 refused to comment after PMQs on Wednesday on whether Trump would be barred and said it’s a “hypothetical question.
Scotland Yard has joined a general outcry in Britain against American presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s remarks over a ban on Muslims entering the US.
He told her: “That is the best way to deal with Donald Trump and his views rather than trying to ban Presidential candidates”.
Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann said Trump’s angry rhetoric and controversial comments about Muslims, Hispanics, immigrants, women and the disabled doesn’t represent the values of the Republican Party or of America at large.
An official petition to ban Donald Trump from entering the United Kingdom has gained more than 100,000 signatures. “For the most part, they have no poll numbers”. He said the ban could be lifted “very quickly if our country could get its act together”.
London Mayor Boris Johnson dismissed Trump’s comments as “utter nonsense” and said “the only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of NY is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump”.
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Mr Trump, who owns luxury golf resorts in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire, was invited to join GlobalScot, the worldwide network of business leaders dedicated to helping Scottish companies thrive, in 2006.
