“I am listening to so-called experts to ease up the rhetoric, and so far, I’m liking the way I ran in the primaries better”, a testy Trump told Time Magazine.
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“Those who do not believe in our constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into our country”.
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s plan to prevent terrorist attacks on US soil includes a “screening test” meant to allow entrance only to immigrants “who we expect to flourish in our country”.
“Our country has enough problems, we don’t need more, and these are problems like we never had before”, he said.
Trump famously said a year ago that as President he would build a big wall between the United States and Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants – and even temporarily bar all members of the Islamic faith from entering, until USA officials can “figure out what’s going on”. He called for parents, teachers and others to promote “American culture” and encouraged “assimilation”. To start, aides said, he would consider adding a review of social media accounts and conducting interviews with an applicant’s friends and family. Trump did not clarify how USA officials would assess the veracity of responses to the questionnaires or how much manpower it would require to complete such arduous vetting. But Europe is facing a much larger influx of refugees than the USA; as Nowrasteh pointed out, migrants “can walk [to Europe], or take a short boat ride”. “The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today”.
In his speech, Trump said that as president he would discard “nation-building”.
Trump’s accusation that Obama and Clinton created the Islamic State group had imperiled the lives of U.S. troops, Biden said.
Republican Donald Trump announced a shakeup of his campaign leadership Wednesday, the latest sign of tumult in his bid for the White House as his poll numbers slip and only 82 days remain before the election.
Gabriel praised Trump for being a leader not afraid to call “a spade, a spade”.
In a policy speech, Trump said he would wage a multi-front “military, cyber and financial” war against Islamic State, although it was not clear how that would differ from the Obama administration’s fight with the jihadist group.
“The threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks”, Biden said. “Instead of condemning the oppressions of women and gays in many Muslim nations, and the systematic violations of human rights, President Obama tried to draw an equivalency between our human rights record and theirs”, Trump said. Hillary Clinton, for her part, attacked Trump and his “secret” plans to attack ISIS.
Clinton served as secretary of state during the withdrawal in Iraq and, as Trump pointed out, was a decisive backer of intervention in Libya that led to the toppling of Moammar Gadhafi and opened that country to Islamic State fighters. Some don’t share this goal.
Trump said US troops should have been used to seize and guard it, and that could have helped stop the later success of the Islamic State group, which has depended on selling the oil to fund its war effort since its invasion in 2014. But they have been unable to reach an agreement on which militant groups could be targeted.
However, one of the most interesting parts of Trump’s discourse was mentioning that Russian Federation is one of his top potential allies in the fight against ISIS.
Obama has held up Bush’s years-long commitment to setting up and securing a new government in Iraq after the initial invasion as a reason to avoid US military intervention in countries like Syria. In 2015, Trump vowed to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US. They’ve already both indicated opposition to Trump’s blanket ban on Muslim immigration, but this is a different issue – he’s proposed a rewrite of the mechanism by which immigrants are granted admission to the country.
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The costs of an expansion of that system as Trump has proposed, she said, would likely be “extraordinary”. In the Cold War, we had ideological screenings.
