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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called Monday for an “extreme vetting process” of immigrants and visitors, particularly those from Muslim countries, during a speech in Youngstown, Ohio.

“Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into our country”, Trump said in a foreign policy address in Youngstown, Ohio. “Only those who we expect to flourish in our country and to embrace a tolerant American society should be issued visas”, he said.

In December, Trump called for a temporary “total and complete” ban on Muslims, but as time went on, more and more exceptions were announced.

Trump’s test talk comes on the heels of heated criticisms of President Obama’s handling of the dangers presented by the Islamic State. He called for parents, teachers and others to promote “American culture” and encouraged “assimilation”.

That may be true, given that his chief political strategist, Paul Manafort, is in bed with the Russian government and on the payroll to the tune of nearly $13 million, payments from Ukraine’s former President Viktor F. Yanukovych.

Biden called Trump’s views “dangerous” and “un-American”.

“We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism just as we have defeated every threat we’ve faced at every age and before”, Trump said, blaming his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, and President Barack Obama for aiding the rise of Islamic State.

“The threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks”, Biden said. “It’s got to be stopped”, he said.

Clinton served as secretary of state during the withdrawal in Iraq and, as Trump pointed out, was a decisive backer of intervention in Libya that led to the toppling of Moammar Gadhafi and opened the country to Islamic State fighters.

He also challenged Clinton’s fitness to be president, declaring she lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on the Islamic State.

“All actions should be oriented around this goal, and any country which shares this goal will be our ally”, he said. However, Russia under Vladimir Putin is considered a top foe among many people in the Republican Party as well as global security experts, and its operations in Syria are widely seen as an effort to prop up the Bashar Assad regime, which is directly at odds with US policy that views him as an oppressive tyrant. But they have been unable to reach an agreement on which militant groups could be targeted.

Trump also stated that the era of nation building should come to an end as he unveiled a blueprint for defeating global terrorism in partnership with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Middle East allies. How long it holds remains to be seen. It is precisely for this perceived retrenchment that many Republicans – and Trump – have repeatedly criticized Obama. I call it extreme vetting.

“We will be tough, we will be even extreme”, Trump said.

He did say that implementing the policy overhaul would require a temporary halt in immigration from “the most unsafe and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”. He did not identify those regions, saying instead that he would ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to do so once he is elected.

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Trump also said he plans to halt immigration from nations with a “history of exporting terrorism” until new procedures are implemented by the United States government to properly screen applications from those parts of the world.

That proposal raised numerous questions that the campaign never clarified, including whether it would apply to citizens of countries like France, Israel, or Ireland, which have suffered recent and past attacks.