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Trump To Enact ‘Extreme Vetting’ of Immigrants to US

Proposes to prepare list of regions for stricter screening, establish a Commission on Radical Islam.

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Trump also said that in implementing his call for a temporary ban on Muslims immigrating to the country, he would institute “extreme vetting” as well as a new screening test to try to catch people who intend to do harm to the United States.

“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.

And while the Republican presidential nominee argued against nation-building in a foreign policy speech Monday, he advocated for something even more grandiose: seizing Iraq’s oil wealth in the aftermath of the US invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein.

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. Individualist values? Would it be a test that those who are already American citizens could pass, or more like the so-called literacy tests of the Jim Crow days?

The 70-year-old contestant, however, toned down his thoughts on Muslims, this time. “The time is long overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today”, the Republican candidate said. To correct this, Trump endorsed the creation of a Commission on Radical Islam “which will include reformist voices in the Muslim community who will hopefully work with us”.

Donald Trump’s speech on foreign policy Monday focused in large part on his proposal to suspend immigration from risky parts of the world and impose a new system of “extreme vetting” that would subject applicants to questions about their personal ideology.

The Republican nominee, who is tanking in the polls following weeks of self-inflicted disasters, made his pitch to be a security strongman as the Democratic vice president accused him of imperiling the lives of Americans.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says that Donald Trump is “playing into the hands of ISIS” with his rhetoric on Muslims.

He said his administration would “aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS”, another name for IS, and be a “friend to all moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East”. Additional speeches with more details are expected in the weeks ahead, they said.

“Recently, a prominent Pakistani social media star was strangled to death by her brother on the charge of dishonoring the family”.

Trump said the current chaos in the aforementioned states began with Obama’s “apology tour”, slamming Obama’s remarks that the USA was “arrogant”, “dismissive”, and “derisive”, and going after Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo in particular. But we must use ideological warfare as well, ‘ he said.

The Clinton campaign responded to Trump’s immigrant-vetting proposal in harsh terms.

The real-estate tycoon criticized Clinton’s ways of handling sensitive information.

Trump said his Administration will aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS, worldwide cooperation to cut off their funding, expanded intelligence sharing, and cyberwarfare to disrupt and disable their propaganda and recruiting.

Donald Trump delivered a major foreign policy speech yesterday, just days after he said Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton founded Daesh (ISIS).

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Republican presidential candidate, however, left a lot of questions unanswered.

Jennifer Rubin