In a town hall hosted by Fox News’ Sean Hannity, GOP leader Donald Trump discussed a possible extensive travel ban when re-elected as president.
Trump emphasized concerns about the southern border and his plan to reinstate travel ban on several Muslim-led countries.
He noted, “I don’t want people coming from countries that want to blow us up.”
The Democrats heavily criticized this policy, yet records show that during Trump’s term, the country did not encounter any foreign-related problems when [travel ban] was implemented.
Trump added, “We didn’t have buildings being knocked down. We didn’t have World Trade Centers,” he added, in apparent reference to 9/11.”
Earlier, the former president had already discussed this policy.
He called for “ideological screenings” for immigrants in a campaign rally in Derry, New Hampshire.
“If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you don’t like our religion — which a lot of them don’t — if you sympathize with jihadists, then we don’t want you in our country, and you are not getting in.”
He also decried Biden’s incapacity to control illegal migrants crossing the border.
“We’re like a dumping ground, and nobody does anything about it. And we are going to be sorting for a long time, but we’re going to get them the hell out of here,” Trump noted.
Mr. Trump also mentioned this when he visited Council Bluffs, Iowa.
“Under the Trump administration, we imposed extreme vetting and put on a powerful travel ban to keep radical Islamic terrorists and jihadists out of our country,” Trump told his audience. “Well, how did that work out? We had no problem, right? They knew they couldn’t come here if they had that moniker. They couldn’t come here.”
Trump warned that his travel ban would come back “even bigger than before and much stronger than before” when he returned to office.
The Guardian also wrote that Trump pledged to bar the entry of refugees from Gaza fleeing retaliatory strikes from Israel after the surprise 7 October attack, just as he tried to ban citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries during his first term with an executive order.
Current and former members of communist and totalitarian parties and their sympathizers are already banned from entry into the US. But Trump told about 1,500 people in suburban Des Moines that if he wins a second term, the US would no longer allow what he called “dangerous lunatics, haters, bigots, and maniacs to get residency in our country”.
Trump and Hannity discussed a wide range of topics, from reports that he will be a “dictator”, to Biden’s health decline, and his position on foreign policy and energy issues.
