He promised to halt immigration from some parts of the world and to employ “extreme vetting” on immigrants from the remainder. “I call it extreme, extreme vetting”, Trump said yesterday.
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Americans and immigrants support Donald Trump’s calls for the ideological vetting of would-be immigrants by more than two-to-one, according to a new poll from Morning Consult. He wants to exclude anyone who sympathizes with terrorist groups, anyone with hostile attitudes towards the USA and anyone who believes in Sharia law.
To prevent the spread of radical Islamic terrorism, Trump suggested he would not push for regime change as president, and he would disrupt terrorists’ activities online to recruit and promote their propaganda and he would work coordinate with other countries interested in destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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 president, he said, he would ask the U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security to identify regions of the world that remain hostile to the United States and where screening might not be sufficient to catch those who pose a threat.
He said Trump was a clear threat to the usa and lacked the necessary foreign policy knowledge to ensure the country’s security, evident by calling President Barack Obama the founder of Daesh and increasing the danger for the U.S.
Trump will also expand upon his proposed Muslim ban, saying in his speech that as president he will order a suspension of visas to countries where adequate screenings cannot be performed.
First off, under this proposal, Donald Trump, most of the GOP, and his Evangelical base would be banned from entering the US.
Trump warned that Clinton’s immigration policy would be the same as Germany’s. 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”.
Mr Trump has since said he was being sarcastic in accusing Mr Obama of founding IS. “Military, cyber, and financial warfare will all be necessary to dismantle Islamic terrorism”, he said. Trump asserted that Clinton lacked the “mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS”.
His campaign aides said a new ideological test for admission to the United States would vet applicants for their stance on issues like religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights.
Speaking shortly after the terrorist attack in Orlando, Clinton said Trump’s words are “a recruiting tool for ISIS to help them increase its ranks of people willing to do what we saw in Orlando”.
Through questionnaires, searching social media, interviewing friends and family or other means, applicants would be vetted to see whether they support American values like tolerance and pluralism.
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Trump then bashed Clinton and Obama for, once getting into the war, withdrawing too suddenly. Trump had promised to release his list of “terror countries” soon.
