Trump’s ‘extreme vetting’ proposal for would-be immigrants

REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Donald Trump pursued his “Muslim scare” approach on Monday evening by pledging to introduce “extreme vetting” of immigrants seeking admission to the United States.

Trump’s call for an ideological test for migrants was also criticized by Hillary Clinton’s advisor Jake Sullivan in a statement: ‘This so-called “policy” can not be taken seriously.

He says applicants will be tested to determine if they share western liberal values and religious tolerance.

He argued that the “current immigration flows are simply too large to perform adequate screening”.

Trump said in his speech that he would temporarily ban immigrants “from some of the most risky and most volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”. He vowed to ban visas to countries with suspect security practices and deny access to anyone that does not embrace what trump described as tolerant American society.

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio August 15, 2016. He said that more than 1000 girls are killed in Pakistan in the name of honor-killing, every year.

Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden said Trump is “totally, thoroughly unqualified to be president”, during a rally Monday for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Trumps’ own policies for combating ISIS and similar extremist groups have remained vague, though this ideological test goes into extensive detail on how he plans prevent potential attackers from stepping on American soil.

Donald Trump, who has made tighter controls on immigration a mainstay of his campaign, has a new plan: an ideological test for anyone entering the U.S.

“Immigrants, or children or grandchildren of immigrants, also hold similar views to the entire electorate on Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban entry to the USA from people residing in countries with a history of terrorism”. He said of the process, “I call it extreme vetting – extreme, extreme vetting”. “The Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed the ISIS, destabilised the Middle East, and put the nation of Iran – which chants “Death to America” – in a dominant position of regional power and, in fact, aspiring to be a dominant world power”, he said. Now, it should be about both sides coming together to devise a way to fend off a common enemy. “We want to build bridges and erase divisions”, he said.

“Beyond terrorism, as we have seen in France, foreign populations have brought their anti-Semitic attitudes with them”, he said. “And we have enough problems in our country right now”.

“The support networks for radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and removed one by one, viciously, if necessary”. Until such a test is ready, he said, the USA should temporarily suspend immigration from countries that have histories of spawning terrorists.

Although the anti-immigration statements have won him support from many Republican voters, the newest message seems aimed at winning over others who might be anxious about terrorism, but who have been turned off by the harsh divisiveness of his earlier remarks.