Trump’s suggested immigration policy proposal also includes a test to elicit Muslim candidates’ ideological positions before being admitted into the USA, according to the same source. During the speech, Trump cited a Cold War-era ideological screening test, and said time is “overdue” to create a new, similar test. Reagan-era presidential proclamations, like the prohibition of illegal migrants by sea, have also served as precedents the Trump campaign has pointed towards for inspiration. “Extreme vetting” would surely increase the chances of identifying and stopping a potential terrorist before they ever made it to America.
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A sizable portion of United States immigrants support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s tough stance on the issue.
“Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into the country”, Trump said, issuing a standard that Trump himself would be unlikely to meet.
The Briefing, Hillary Clinton’s opposition research arm, turned the tables on Trump’s test – trying to prove he wouldn’t be qualified to immigrate into the country based on his own test.
Trump said one of his first acts as president will be to establish a commission on radical Islam which will include reformist voices in the Muslim community who will work with his administration.
Calling for significant changes in how the United States defines its allies, he urged an end to “nation building” and recommended overhauling how the USA screens people coming in to the country.
He went on to say that, if elected, his government would befriend the moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East, and would help to eradicate various evils, for instance: honor killings. “We want to build bridges and erase divisions”, he said. “Viciously if necessary”, he pledged.
“Military, cyber and financial warfare will all be necessary to dismantle Islamic terrorism”.
“Wouldn’t [better relations with Russia] be a good thing?” he asked the crowd at Youngstown State. He said any country that shares the goal would be a US ally.
The State Department would be tasked with determining those areas, he said, adding that “there are many such regions”.
“I’m anxious about the vetting process from people we have no way of checking into their background”. Some of those provisions, on assessing potentially unsafe political beliefs, date from the Cold War.
Mr Trump said he believes the USA and Russian Federation could find “common ground” in the fight against ISIS.
“It would require a near overhaul of the application form and very likely capture many more thousands of applicants in the “administrative processing” net”, explained Slocombe, describing a need for new application and interview standards – likely causing significant delays “although arguably not adding any greater security checks than already exist”.
-Keeping Guantanamo Bay where suspect terrorists are held open.
Her spokesperson said of Trump’s speech: “This so-called “policy” can not be taken seriously”.
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He was leveling criticism at his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and President Obama for not being forceful enough about articulating the threat posed by Islamic extremism.
