Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Saturday that he wouldn’t characterize his immigration policies as including “mass deportations”, and that rather than a blanket ban on Muslims coming to the us he’d focus on those from countries with links to terrorists. Or Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai?
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So is Trump’s policy now that people of any religion from unspecified “terror states” will be banned, or only those who can’t be “strongly vetted”, or is it still all Muslims, with some exceptions? And from imposing a total – if temporary – ban on Muslim immigration to allowing most Muslims entry into the USA as long as they’re not from “terrorist countries” is an astonishing walk back. “Mr. Trump still wants to stop individuals from coming into this country who can not be vetted”. Shortly after endorsing the billionaire businessman, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie suggested Trump had walked away from the plan entirely.
Trump, 70, continued eating fish and chips at his golf course’s clubhouse before adding: “We are going to get rid of a lot of bad dudes who are here”.
“I called for a ban after San Bernardino and was met with great scorn and anger”.
Pressed on whether he would issue mass deportations as he has called for in the past, Trump said: “No, I would not call it mass deportations”.
“We’re going to do it in a very humane fashion”. “It will be lifted, this ban, when and as a nation we’re in a position to properly and perfectly screen these people coming into our country”. And compared to the Democrat’s open borders policy and welcoming Muslim refugees with little vetting, Trump looks positively reasonable by comparison.
Even after she was played an excerpt from the December speech which made clear that Trump’s proposed ban included all Muslims, Pierson maintained that it was in the context of immigration.
Pierson went on to explain Trump’s initial comments on banning Muslim immigrants, saying they were limited in scope to immigration only. “There has been no change”, she said.
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In western Pennsylvania, people have “endured incredible economic hardship” as manufacturing jobs move overseas, said Joseph DiSarro, who chairs the political science department at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pa. Trump’s message is well-received there, DiSarro said, adding that “globalization has really brought on unfair competition to the American worker” as businesses move jobs to low-wage, low-regulated countries.
