Trump’s proposals were the latest version of a policy that began with his unprecedented call to temporarily bar foreign Muslims from entering the country – a religious test that was criticized across party lines as un-American.
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“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people”, said Trump, proposing what he called an “ideological screening test”.
“We will also work closely with NATO on this new mission”, said Trump, whose remarks about the defence organisation earlier this summer drew heavy criticism from allies and even some of his fellow Republicans.
“I wouldn’t want to belong to any country that would have me as an immigrant”. I call it extreme.
His most specific anti-IS proposals centred on keeping those seeking to carry out attacks in the West from entering the US.
The Republican presidential nominee will speak at Youngstown State University Monday afternoon.
In addition to the existing proposal to ban immigrants from countries compromised by terrorism, the Trump campaign will propose that “the USA would stop issuing visas in any case where it can not perform adequate screenings”.
Trump also says he wants A new immigration policy that uses “extreme vetting” and he says people who don’t believe in the Constitution should not be allowed into the country. And he suggested that we need to limit Muslim immigration – because Muslim immigrants tend to make bigoted generalizations about Jewish people. Hillary Clinton, for her part, attacked Trump and his “secret” plans to attack ISIS. To start, aides said, he would consider adding a review of social media accounts and conducting interviews with an applicant’s friends and family. What some may consider to be “support (for) bigotry and hatred” may be, in another person’s view, an expression of free speech protected by the First Amendment. Later, he made a decision to discriminate on the basis of region, rather than religion, vowing to suspend immigration from countries with a “history of terrorism”. Which countries exactly? That’s TBD.
In fighting terrorism, Trump also said he would focus on destroying the Islamic State through joint military operations with other countries, create “a commission on radical Islam”, end “our current strategy of nation-building and regime change”, keep Guantanamo Bay open and stop trying terror suspects in civilian courts.
“We will also work closely with NATO on this new mission”, said Trump, whose previous remarks about the organisation earlier this summer drew heavy criticism from United States allies, and even some of his fellow Republicans.
It was not clear if the millions of tourists who visit the United States each year would be subject to the additional screenings.
Republican Donald Trump said on Monday he would work closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies to defeat Islamic State militants if he wins the White House, reversing an earlier threat that the United States might not meet its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation obligations.
But he’s providing few details on what that means or how much it would cost. His most specific prescriptions centered on changing USA immigration policy to keep potential attackers from entering the country.
Trump also said he believes the United States should have seized ownership of Iraq’s oil at the conclusion of the war in Iraq.
“In the old days, when we won a war, to the victor belonged the spoils”, Trump said.
Having boasted past year that his approval ratings spiked after terror attacks, Trump sought on Monday to harness and intensify a climate of fear and vengeance, and then pin its causes on the current president and his former secretary of state.
“Mr. Trump’s speech will explain that while we can’t choose our friends, we must always recognize our enemies”, Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said. I thought I’d score poorly, but I actually scored 96%! In fact, you could say it’s an expansion.
“I know he said he knows more than the generals”, Clinton said. ‘Oh, you can’t use the word Muslim, ‘ remember this?
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Instead, the enemy Donald Trump seeks to name – “radical Islam” – is a broad, all-encompassing entity, an ideological scarecrow that would justify turning our backs on refugees and shutting the door to legal Muslim immigrants. Trump had promised to release his list of “terror countries” soon. His speech Monday referred to regions, with the caveat that he might not name them until after taking office.
