Hillary Clinton unveils strategy to fight terrorism in Minneapolis speech

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is unveiling her plan to strengthen the nation’s defenses against terrorism with a speech in Minnesota, a state that has wrestled with recruiting for extremist groups for years.

“Our political debate has been anything but serious”, Clinton said in the speech at the University of Minnesota, a state that’s become a hotbed for domestic terrorist recruitment.

The former secretary of state’s speech addressed proactive steps for capping Islamic State recruitment in the USA, especially online, and for stopping potential jihadists from training overseas. But given Clinton’s sizable lead over Democratic challengers Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Martin O’Malley of Maryland, she can comfortably begin shifting away from the left-wing economic populism that marked the beginning of her campaign. When an intel-community review of the contents of Hillary’s secret server – or the content she allowed to be reviewed – determined that at least two messages stored on the unauthorized system contained Top Secret/Compartmented information, Team Hillary spun that as an example of overclassification.

Clinton took the stage Monday amid a standing ovation and waited, smiling, while IL representative and long-term immigrant advocate Luiz Gutierrez, of Illinois’s fourth district, gave her an enthusiastic introduction.

Several Republicans are calling for an worldwide coalition to combat terrorist hotbeds in the Middle East, but Clinton said the anti-Muslim rhetoric coming from the GOP is counterproductive to that effort. “And we will defeat these new enemies just as we have defeated those who have threatened us in the past, because it is not enough to contain ISIS – we must defeat ISIS”.

Since Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump proposed a short-term ban on Muslims entering the United States, Clinton and other Democrats have been quick to deride the proposal.

Terrorism and national security have surpassed economic issues as the top issue for many Republicans this election cycle, and the topics are also a major driver for Democratic decisionmaking.

Afyare, whose group is leading the Minneapolis pilot program, said it’s also important for Clinton to deliver a message of unity and reject divisive, inflammatory language that has singled out Muslims. At least 10 Minnesota men have been charged in an alleged conspiracy to travel to Syria to join and fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. “We have to stop them and we will”.

To sum up, Clinton will defeat ISIS by defeating them in the Middle East, around the world and at home through such methods as “foiling plots”, “hitting its fighters” and “dismantling the global network of terror”.

Clinton also said that she was “glad” that the U.S.is taking a closer look at visa security and suggested that the Department of Homeland Security should dispatch agents to “high risk countries” to “better investigate” visa applicants.

Terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Paris have dramatically altered the tenor of the 2016 campaign, drawing attention to fighting terrorism and protecting the United States.