Trump’s immigration plan raises many unanswered questions

“To put these new procedures in place, we will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most unsafe and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”, he said. He said attacks involving “immigrants or the children of immigrants” underscore the need to implement “extreme vetting”. Our country has enough problems.

Trump also pledged to crack down on anyone or anything deemed to support radical Islamic terrorism.

Mrs Clinton has seized on Republican concerns about Mr Trump, highlighting the steady stream of party national security experts who say the billionaire tycoon is unfit to serve as commander in chief. In related statements, Trump made a slight (but noticeable) reversal in his previous criticism of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. He also promised to look for “common ground” with Russian Federation.

“Wouldn’t [better relations with Russia] be a good thing?” he asked the crowd at Youngstown State.

Trump also said he believes the United States should have seized ownership of Iraq’s oil at the conclusion of the war in Iraq.

“Over the course of the campaign, Trump has put forth one falsehood after the next, trash-talking America and our leaders with ridiculous smears and using outrageous lies to stoke fears and division for personal gain”, the Clinton campaign said in a pre-speech statement.

Trump, who last week accused US President Barack Obama of being “the founder” of ISIL, also attacked his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for enabling the rise of the armed group, which is also known as ISIS. He dismissed Clinton as a failure. He said the policy – the cost of which or specific details were not announced – would first require a temporary halt in immigration from “dangerous regions” of the world.

In a foreign policy speech on Monday, the billionaire businessman said the goal of the new commission would be to “expose” networks within the United States “that support radicalisation”.

“All actions should be oriented around this goal, and any country which shares this goal will be our ally”, Trump said at a stop in Youngstown, Ohio, about 75 miles southeast of Clevelnd. “We can never choose our friends, but we can never fail to recognize our enemies”.

It’s that kind of complexity, however, that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump glossed over in his foreign policy speech Monday.

He did say that implementing the policy overhaul would require a temporary halt in immigration from “the most risky and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”. Biden called Trump’s views “dangerous” and “un-American” and warned that Trump’s assertions last week about President Obama founding ISIL could be used by extremists to target American service members in Iraq.

“If my son were still in Iraq and I say to all those who are there, the threat to their life has gone up a couple of clicks”, he said.

Ahead of a visit to reassure North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies in the Balkans, U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden campaigned for Clinton, issuing this denunciation of Trump’s foreign policy.

Trump suggested the course of history would have been different had the USA taken a more colonial approach to Iraq, keeping control of that country’s oil supply following the 2003 invasion.

Trump compared fighting terrorism to the Cold War, but times have changed. The government would use “questionnaires, social media, interviews with friends and family or other means” to determine if applicants support United States values like tolerance and pluralism. The US would stop issuing visas in any case where it can not perform adequate screenings. That raises questions about where a Trump administration would draw the line. Nor did the campaign say whether additional screenings would apply to the millions of tourists who spend billions of dollars visiting the USA each year.

Trump’s address comes during a trying stretch for his presidential campaign.