Ban Muslims From Entering US: Donald Trump
“There’s no problem. I’m just doing the right thing”, he told CNN.
“As he says, we have to find out who they are and why they are here”, he said.
“Crime has been falling steadily both in London and in NY – and the only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of NY is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump”.
The Republican presidential candidate said what he is proposing is “no different” to the actions of president Franklin Roosevelt, “who was highly respected by all” despite his wartime measures that included putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps in the US.
The Republican frontrunner’s proposed ban would apply to immigrants and visitors alike, a sweeping prohibition affecting all adherents of a religion practised by more than a billion people worldwide. He then read aloud from the statement at a campaign rally in SC on Monday night.
“It is unclear what Trump meant by going ‘to see Bill Gates” though it appears to suggest that Trump believes the Microsoft co-founder may be in charge of the fabled Internet kill switch – something that the inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, says doesn’t exist. “They are living in our country and many are outside of our country”.
Two worldwide organizations, the United Nations refugee agency and the global Organization for Migration, also rejected Trump’s comments, saying US presidential campaign rhetoric threatens resettlement efforts.
An overflow crowed fills the hangar deck of the USS Yorktown as Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, speaks during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. “His “policy” proposals are not serious“.
Asked whether he would support Trump as the GOP presidential nominee, Ryan said he would support “whoever the nominee is”.
Cuomo repeatedly pushed back against Trump’s plan as not what America stands for and the host noted that most of the developer’s Republican rivals have criticized it.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations criticized Trump’s remarks as unconstitutional and un-American.
Other Republicans seeking their party’s nomination refuted Trump’s newest policy prescription.
And at a press gaggle in Iowa, Carly Fiorina said “President Obama isn’t prepared to do anything, which is clearly foolish, but Donald Trump always plays on everyone’s worst instincts and fears”.
In the late 1800s, the US Congress passed legislation broadly aimed at halting Chinese immigration.
“The US was founded as a place of refuge for those fleeing religious persecution, and religious pluralism is core to our national identity”, said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in a statement.
Jeffrey Moscher. “That’s what our founding fathers saw in us so I don’t think we need to be afraid of any one specific group of people or any one label that I don’t think represents that Muslim religion or Islam properly at all”.