Khan, who became a United States citizen after emigrating from Pakistan in 1980, issued the challenge on Monday in reaction to a Trump foreign policy address in Youngstown, Ohio, in which the businessman proposed instituting an ideological test to visa applicants before allowing them to enter the country.
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“I challenge Trump to take the naturalization test with me any day”, he said.
Trump says he would enact “extreme – extreme – vetting” of immigrants, but would he be able to pass his own naturalization test? His is demagoguery and pandering for vote.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called on Donald Trump to take a US citizenship test, ahead of the Republican presidential nominee’s speech Monday where he is expected to lay out new immigration policies. We must make it safe―as Muslim Americans it is our obligation to keep our country safe. He told the Huffington Post: “We reject all violence”. “Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into the country”, Trump declared. “We stand as a testament to assimilation and being part of patriotic America as anyone else”.
There is ample evidence that Trump’s feud with the Khans has hurt his campaign.
Trump was criticized by many Republicans for his attacks on the Khan family.
Carl Paladino, New York’s 2010 Republican gubernatorial nominee who lost in a landslide election against Democrat Andrew Cuomo (but not before scoring a sweet photo op with Jimmy McMillan, above), recently told Imus in the Morning that the Khans didn’t deserve to be Gold Star parents.
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Although Trump and McCain have publicly sparred over the past year, the Arizona senator has stood by him, constantly reciting his now standard line of, “I support the nominee of the party”.
