That’s also unclear. In the 15 years since the September 11 attacks, the U.S. has built a system to screen all non-citizens trying to enter the U.S. Intelligence is now shared with immigration officials, and security employees are posted in sensitive countries to help vet visa applicants, former officials said.
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“The Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed ISIS, destabilized the Middle East, and put the nation of Iran – which chants, “death to America” – in a dominant position”, Trump told an invited audience gathered at Youngstown State University in OH, a key state in his election battle against his Democratic opponent in November. He’s also talked about suspending immigration from countries with a history of spawning terrorists, a proposal he repeated Monday. “We will partner with King Abdullah of Jordan and the president of Egypt, President Sisi, and all otherswho recognise this ideology of death that must be extinguished”, Trump said. Obama discarded that strategy while trying to keep enough US influence there to prevent those two countries from crumbling. We don’t need more.
The candidate also used the speech to renew his call for a ban on immigrants from countries with a “history of exporting terrorism”, saying it is impossible to properly vet people coming from those places. “In addition to screening out all members or sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles – or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law”, he said. “Only those we expect to flourish in this country and to embrace a tolerant American society should be issued visas”. He has not mentioned the name of any particular country and said if he becomes president, he will give a list of applicable countries to the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department. “And all of the many adversaries that we face”, Trump added.
A spokesman for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton slammed Trump’s plan, calling it a “cynical ploy”.
Singling out Russia, Trump said that the USA should “find common ground” with leaders in Moscow in the fight against the Islamic State group. “It is time for a new approach”. “And these are problems like we’ve never seen before”, he said.
The Times reports that Trump has said his administration would be a friend to moderate reformers in the Middle East and would speak out against honour killings. The United States Senate Subcommittee on Immigration estimates that Hillary Clinton’s plan would mean roughly 620,000 refugees from all current refugee-sending nations in her first term, assuming no cuts to other refugee programs. “As she threw the Middle East into violent turmoil, things turned out really to be not so hot”.
Now, evidently, there’s a new prong to the policy: an ideological test.
Though his speech mirrored the apocalyptic tone of the speech he delivered a few weeks ago at the Republican National Convention, he sought to end it on a cheery, unifying note: “I will fight to ensure that every American is treated equally, protected equally, and respected equally”, he said.
In a blatant appeal to right-wing Christian evangelical voters, Trump characterized the terrorism waged by ISIS against the West as a war against Christendom.
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Trump’s proposals were the latest version of a policy that began with his unprecedented call to temporarily bar foreign Muslims from entering the country – a religious test that was criticized across party lines as un-American. GOP advisers have been encouraging Trump to exercise more discipline on the stump, in hopes of reversing his declining poll numbers.
