Trump did not clarify how US officials would assess the veracity of responses to the questionnaires or how much manpower it would require to complete such arduous vetting. Our country has enough problems, we don’t need more. Some immigration officials wonder how this test would catch potential radicals more effectively than the current vetting process, which requires United States government officials to share intelligence data with immigration services, and U.S. security agents are posted in high-risk nations to help with vetting.
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Donald Trump stayed on script at Youngstown State University on Monday when he laid out his plan for fighting what he calls “radical Islam”.
Trump also pledged to crack down on anyone or anything deemed to support radical Islamic terrorism.
After all, one of Trump’s most-trusted advisers, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, thought he was in Indiana.
“We can find common ground with Russian Federation in the fight against ISIS”.
“Wouldn’t [better relations with Russia] be a good thing?” he asked the crowd at Youngstown State.
Trump also said he believes the United States should have seized ownership of Iraq’s oil at the conclusion of the war in Iraq.
The Republican nominee declared his opposition to “nation building” and other efforts to spread democracy in the Middle East, attacking the Obama administration – particularly former secretary of State Hillary Clinton – for policies toward nations like Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria and Egypt. He dismissed Clinton as a failure.
Trump implied that the test would question whether immigrants want to implement Islamic law in the USA, a fear commonly voiced by some conservatives.
“Any country that shares this goal will be our allies”, Trump said. “We cannot always choose our friends but we can never fail to recognise our enemies”, Trump added.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has proposed an “extreme vetting process” for new immigrants to prevent entry of radicalised ones into the US.
In order to implement his proposed procedures, he said his administration would “temporarily suspend immigration” from some of the most risky countries in the world, including those “that have a history of exporting terrorism”.
Clinton et al have been hitting Trump over his business dealings, and, as Biden noted above, his inability or unwillingness to show he has basic subject knowledge or even an interest in studying up for the Oval Office.
“The threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks”, Biden said.
It was a change from his claim last week that Mr. Obama and Clinton are the founders of ISIS, which he then revised by saying in a tweet that it was just “sarcasm”.
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 28 deadly homegrown terrorist incidents took place in the US, with 18 of them carried out by right-wing extremists, including, most recently, the mass shooting that killed three and wounded nine at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The Clinton campaign said Trump’s plan to have immigrants submit to ideological tests was “a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country and no one should fall for it”. The government would use questionnaires, social media, interviews with friends and family or other means to determine if applicants support American values like tolerance and pluralism.
The reference to joint operations is apparently to Russia, which opposes US support for moderate opposition forces trying to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a Russian ally.
“The Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed ISIS, destabilized the Middle East, and put the nation of Iran – which chants, “death to America” – in a dominant position”, Trump told an invited audience gathered at Youngstown State University in OH, a key state in his election battle against his Democratic opponent in November.
“Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in what was billed as a major foreign policy address, on Monday backed off past threats to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance – saying that if he’s elected, the US will work with the 28-member bloc to defeat the Islamic State”.
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The Republican nominee also described President Obama as a “founder” of the Islamic State last week, drawing criticism. Get the WTAE Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 App and follow our newsroom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
