Monday, July 25, 2016

USA: Donald Trump Says He’s Expanded His Proposed Muslim Ban


"We must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place."

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The Huffington Post
By Eliot Nelson | July 24, 2016

But the Republican presidential nominee doesn’t offer many specifics.

Donald Trump now says his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention featured a call to expand his proposed ban on Muslim immigration to the United States, after the GOP presidential nominee appeared to temper his language on the subject during his remarks.

“I actually don’t think it’s a rollback,” Trump told NBC’s Chuck Todd in an interview that aired Sunday morning on “Meet the Press.” “In fact, you could say it’s an expansion.”

During his speech in Cleveland on Thursday, Trump seemed to tone down his rhetoric, not explicitly saying he would ban Muslim immigration as president, but ban immigration from countries “compromised by terrorism.”

“We must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place,” Trump said during his address at the Quicken Loans Arena. “We don’t want them in our country.”

Though Trump heavily focused on “Islamic terrorism” in his address, his section on the ban seemed to deviate from the language of his original plan.

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