But Ed Brookover, a former Trump senior adviser, countered that Monday’s speech was the latest step in a steady effort by the Republican nominee to lay out a new national security blueprint for America.
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Trump suggests an ideological screening test for the process of immigration to the United States.
“Military, cyber and financial warfare will all be necessary to dismantle Islamic terrorism”. Our new approach, which must be shared by both U.S. political parties, our allies and our friends in the Middle East, must be to halt the spread of radical Islam, he said.
The presidential nominee also revealed that if he becomes president his administration would focus on opposing “oppression of women, gays and people of different faith”.
“This includes speaking out against the terrible practice of honor killings, where women are murdered by their relatives for dressing, marrying or acting in a way that violates fundamentalist teachings”. He also repeated the dubious claim that he had opposed the Iraq War “from the beginning” and criticized both the war and the subsequent withdrawal of U.S. troops, before saying that “we should have kept the oil in Iraq”-a long-standing position of his that, on its face, amounts to an endorsement of the idea that the USA should engage in wars to seize foreign resources”. It is time to put in place a new selection test adapted to the threats we face today, “said the Republican candidate for the White House”.
That’s why it is more important what Trump didn’t say in his remarks riddled with half-truths and impudence.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as foreign policy realism focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. “Any country that shares this goal will be our ally”, he said. Only those we feel able to flourish in our country and to blend into the tolerant American society should receive a visa. He said the policy would first require a temporary halt in immigration from unsafe regions of the world.
The naturalization test is taken by all those pursuing USA citizenship, and includes a list of ten questions from the possibility of 100. “Don’t let somebody else get it.'” It would have required USA troops to protect the oil, he said, but the benefit would have been clear today. He also criticized President Obama and Hillary Clinton for withdrawing from Iraq too quickly, and “on a timetable advertised to our enemies”.
“The support networks for radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and removed one by one, viciously if necessary”. As the NAM outlined in our “Competing to Win” policy agenda, “Comprehensive immigration reform holds the power to transform not only manufacturing but also our nation and economy to new heights”. “Those who are guests in our country that are preaching hate will be asked to return home immediately, and if they don’t do it, we will return them home”.
“We want to build bridges and erase divisions”, Trump said.
“We will promote our America values, our American way of life, and our American system of government which are all the best in the world”, he said.
Trump is right that the Islamic State capitalized on the political and security vacuum in Iraq in 2014, but it’s not clear that a long-term USA military occupation to hold and exploit Iraqi’s oil resources would have led to a more stable outcome.
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After President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901, the US passed a law two years later banning anarchists from entry into the US, Philip E. Wolgin, managing director for immigration at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, told CNN.
