Trump Says Immigration Database Would Be for Syrian Refugees, Not All Muslims

Trump was asked by NBC News on Thursday whether he would support creating a database system to track Muslims. “Absolutely”, the Republican front-runner told NBC News on Thursday night. Trump is out with a new book that reads like a campaign manifesto providing lots of boasting, but little in the way of new detail on how he plans to implement policy goals.

Rabbi Jack Moline, executive director of the non-profit Interfaith Alliance, told NBC News that he too was forced to say that those suggesting such actions were following the Nazis.

“Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down”.

“I’m a big fan of Donald Trump’s, but not a fan of government registries of American citizens”, the presidential candidate said in Sioux City, Iowa.

“He has not confirmed a database”, radio host Rush Limbaugh said Friday.

“I think it’s a moment in this country when people have got to speak out”, Kean said.

When Trump called in to Fox News on Friday, he supported a database of refugees from Syria. “I think when people are looking for somebody like Carson, they want a long-term value and not just settle for this short-term hit”.

“The key difference is that Donald Trump would want to bring surveillance programmes like this out of the shadows and into the public with the intention of spying directly on American Muslims”, McCaw said. “I want surveillance of certain mosques”.

“I do want surveillance”. And you know what? “We’ve had it before, we will have it again”.

In the wake of Islamic State terror attacks that killed 130 people in Paris last week, most of the leading Republican presidential contenders have invoked the sort of harsh rhetoric about Islam and Muslims that Bush sought to avoid.

Sen. Ted Cruz, who has been reticent to directly attack Trump on the campaign trail, is opposed to Syrian Muslim refugees reaching US shores.

The House of Representatives passed legislation in the past week essentially barring Syrian and Iraqi refugees from the United States.

His rivals have vacillated in how they have handled other inflammatory comments from Trump, apparently wary of alienating his supporters while increasingly concerned that he has held his grip on the race deep into the fall.

“You’re talking about internment, you’re talking about closing mosques, you’re talking about registering people, and that’s just wrong”, Bush said on CNBC.

“The First Amendment protects religious liberties for every American”. “You can use neutral criteria to identify terrorists”.

Besides, violating the civil rights of individuals via religious discrimination for national security reasons (always the go-to reason for such draconian measures) is unnecessary in that there are already safeguards in place for those individuals that really need monitoring or those that, for one reason or another, have become persons of interest by governments. “That won’t fly in any court”.

In a tweet on Friday, Trump said that he had never suggested creating a database but that the reporter did. “We should have a lot of systems, and today you can do it”, he said.

He appeared to clarify a comment earlier this week about such a database, making clear it would apply to all Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.

“[It could be] a mosque, or any church or any organization or any school or any press corps where there was a lot of radicalization and things that were anti-American”, he said in Columbia, S.C., according to The Associated Press.

Republican rival Ohio Gov. John Kasich, meanwhile, said the proposal proved the real estate mogul was not worthy of the White House.

Trump has fended off criticism recently that he was accused of backing a US database on all Muslims in the country.

“We as Muslim leaders sincerely believe that the majority of Americans are not racists and do not subscribe to the racist agenda”.