He also called for global efforts to cut off funding to terrorist groups, expanded intelligence sharing, and cyberwarfare – all steps that are part of the existing White House strategy.
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The poll found that first-generation immigrants supported Trump’s proposal to temporary halt immigration from countries with a history of terrorism “until the vetting process can be fixed” at a higher rate that voters in general. Trump called for an global conference to work on preventing the radicalization of Islam. “We have enough problems already, we don’t need another one”, he said.
“It turns out that all the reasons for the war were blatantly wrong. two minutes after we leave, there’s going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over.”
Donald Trump has called for “extreme vetting” of immigrants and pledged to make dramatic changes to USA immigration policy if he wins the presidential race in November. I call it extreme.
He also proposed “extreme” ideological testing of immigrants trying to enter the USA so that those with “extremist sympathies or an insufficient embrace of American values” could be blocked.
Donald Trump touted his new plan for ideological tests as a way to prevent would-be terrorists from entering the United States, but he has yet to detail how it would work. The time is long overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today.
Hillary Clinton was the center of an on-stage attack during the speech when Trump stated that the Democrat lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on ISIS.
On the home front he also proposed setting up a “commission on radical Islam” which would include “reformist voices in the Muslim community” to root out jihadist networks and stop radicalization of young Americans.
“These are men, women and children who worked hard to get here, who worked hard to become citizens and who are now working hard as productive members of our society”, Reid said. He focused on the withdrawal of USA troops from Iraq in 2011 and the military intervention in Libya, which Clinton advocated when she was secretary of state.
“The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary Clinton”, Trump said, pointing to decisions made in Libya, Syria, and Iraq that led to the region’s current instability, allowing ISIS to prosper. “As she threw the Middle East into violent turmoil, things turned out really to be not so hot”.
Based on Donald Trump’s plan, the citizens from other countries that have a history of terror will be banned in the United States but Trump did not clarify from which nations.
That’s why it is more important what Trump didn’t say in his remarks riddled with half-truths and impudence.
All this said, the more time Trump spends talking about policy, the better.
To this day, the USA maintains its call for a Syria without Mr Assad, even as it works with the Syrian leader’s partners to try to engineer a united government that would keep Mr Assad in power, perhaps indefinitely.
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Stephen Miller, Trump’s policy adviser, portrayed the terrorism address as a road map, with more detailed speeches to follow.
