Trump dedicated a chunk of his speech to decrying what he described as a decline in American security under President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee who was secretary of state in Obama’s first term.
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“We should only admit into our country those who share our values and respect our people”, he said from Youngstown, Ohio.
Donald Trump’s policy speech in which he revealed his plans to defeat the Islamic State and protect American soil from terrorism was also made in a bid to inject some life into his stalled presidential campaign, according to CNN.
Trump is right when he says we need a better plan to stop terrorism. Still, he directly blamed the president and Mrs Clinton, who served as secretary of state, for backing policies that “unleashed” the group, including withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq in late 2011.
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.
The newest iteration of Trump’s policy, while not specifically demanding a religious test on entering the country, still allows for capricious enforcement, said Steve Yale-Loehr, a Cornell Law School professor who specializes in immigration.
The GOP nominee said he would wage a multifront “military, cyber and financial” war to defeat ISIS, including clamping down on the killer cartel’s use of social media and other online forums to spread its poisonous ideology. He panned the long, expensive Iraq War started under Republican President George W. Bush, as well as Obama’s calls for new leadership in some Middle East countries during the pro-democracy Arab Spring uprisings. Some immigration officials wonder how this test would catch potential radicals more effectively than the current vetting process, which requires United States government officials to share intelligence data with immigration services, and U.S. security agents are posted in high-risk nations to help with vetting. He’s struggled to stay on message and has consistently overshadowed his policy rollouts, including an economic speech last week, with provocative statements, including his comments falsely declaring that Obama was the “founder” of the Islamic State.
Under a President Trump, American foreign policy would look something like this: Guantanamo Bay would remain open.
All of this is meant to shed light on Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States, unveiled in December.
Just 29 percent of immigrants were opposed to Trump’s idea.
The Anti-Defamation League immediately took to Twitter to express concerns about Trump’s reiterated call to ban Muslim entry and entry from countries subject to violence.
In an nearly simultaneous appearance with Clinton in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Vice President Joe Biden also invoked Israel in attacking Trump’s national security policies. “Only this way will we make America great again and safe again for everyone”.
“My opponent wants to increase, which is unbelievable no matter who you are and where you come from, the flow of Syrian refugees by 550 percent”, he said.
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In November 2015, Trump proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States. He claimed that since his comments criticizing North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for its failure to deal adequately with terrorism, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats.
