Donald Trump called for “extreme” ideological vetting of immigrants seeking admission to the USA, vowing to block those who sympathise with extremist groups or do not embrace American values.
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The first-term Republican, perhaps Trump’s highest-profile supporter in Georgia, spoke in stark terms Tuesday of the threat of terrorism at home and overseas.
“In America, we have seen one brutal attack after another”.
“I’m anxious about the vetting process from people we have no way of checking into their background”.
On Monday, Trump positioned the fight against ISIS as an ideological battle akin to the Cold War.
“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people”, he said. Following a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in June, Trump introduced a new standard, vowing to “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats”.
After a shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Mr Trump said he would temporarily ban immigration from countries with a previous history of terrorism against the U.S. and other western countries.
As The Christian Science Monitor’s Peter Grier noted, “extreme vetting” is a method that might help Trump get around the religious test embodied in his past suggestion of a temporary ban on the entry of non-citizen Muslims into the United States – a means of religious discrimination that’s been heavily criticized.
But instead of softening his previously blunt language calling for an outright ban on Muslim immigration, Trump used the speech to emphasise what he claimed was a epoch-defining ideological struggle.
Her Republican rival Donald Trump has harshly criticized Clinton’s foreign policy of military interventions and subverting legitimate governments such as in Libya and Syria, as disastrous, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths and significant material destruction. “We’ve got eight years of failure and I’m picking the high ground, because she’s not offering any solutions”.
He pledged to work with any nations willing to help the USA defeat the Islamic State, welcoming alliances from any country that shared the mission to destroy “radical Islamic terrorism”, regardless of other ideological beliefs. “We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism, just as we have defeated every threat we have faced in every age before”.
Trump mostly delivered broad outlines for his ideas on fighting terrorism, many of which he has mentioned before, rather than specific policy proposals. Last week, Trump repeatedly said that Obama and Clinton are the co-founders of ISIS before eventually explaining that he was being sarcastic but “not that sarcastic”.
At the same time, Trump said his administration “will speak out against the oppression of women, gays and people of different beliefs” and that it would be a “friend to all moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East and will amplify their voices”.
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Trump had promised to release a list of “terror countries”, but never did.
