Donald Trump Just Changed His Mind on Muslims—You Can Enter America Only If You’re a Scottish Muslim
Donald Trump might be feeling the pressure with his campaign manager gone and his polls dropping since he made a very special announcement regarding his thoughts on the Muslim communities.
Last Saturday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump amended his general suggestion on immigration policies. If before he was ready to deport all Muslims and Mexicans back to their nations, this time, Donald Trump is appealing to a more reasonable stance on immigration.
“I don’t want people coming in from the terror countries. You have terror countries! I don’t want them, unless they’re very, very strongly vetted. But they’re going to be even more severely vetted if it’s one of the terror countries.”
Donald Trump said that his policy, if ever he would be elected president, would have a “heart.” He noted that he would only focus on banning Muslims from countries with links to terrorism. If a Muslim would be coming from Scotland, he could give a leeway, according to ABC.
Trump said that it “wouldn’t bother” him if Scottish Muslims would come to the United States. This is a 180-shift from his original proposal of “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
When Donald Trump revised his announcement, many were surprised, especially since his original proposal was so headstrong on suspending all Muslims from entering the U.S. This is the only time Donald Trump made a specification that only Muslims from terrorist countries are not going to be allowed.
“Although the pause is temporary, we must find out what is going on,” he said. “We have to do it. It will be lifted, this ban, when and as a nation we’re in a position to properly and perfectly screen these people coming into our country.”
“I want terrorists out. I want people that have bad thoughts out. I would limit specific terrorist countries and we know who those terrorist countries are,” Trump said.
When asked to clarify what he meant when he said “terrorist” countries, Donald Trump did not respond.
We must suspend immigration from regions linked with terrorism until a proven vetting method is in place.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2016
We only want to admit those who love our people and support our values. #AmericaFirst
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2016
I have never liked the media term 'mass deportation' — but we must enforce the laws of the land!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2016
Obama has blocked ICE officers and BP from doing their jobs. That ends when I am President!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2016
The Sudden Shift
Donald Trump might be doing damage control when he announced this change on this plans for immigration. In the released immigration plan last year, Donald Trump indicated that the U.S. will build a wall along its border in Mexico and he would even ask Mexico to pay for the structure.
This weekend, he continued his stance on the matter by saying, “We are going to get rid of a lot of bad dudes who are here. That I can tell you.”
The new announcement from Donald Trump has also been a complete opposite of his Dec. 7 news release, which stated that he wanted a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
Aside from Scottish Muslims, Donald Trump did not move over to explaining the other regions that could be exempted from his immigration rule.
With about 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, according to the Pew Research Center, Europe has a massive population of Muslims as well.
In his new sentiment on the Muslim rule, Donald Trump also blamed the media for describing his suggestions as “mass deportations.” Trump said he never agreed to this term created by the media.
However, November last year, Donald Trump said to achieve his goal of deporting “immigrants” back to Mexico, he would have a “deportation force.”
“You’re going to have a deportation force, and you’re going to do it humanely and you’re going to bring the country — and, frankly, the people, because you have some excellent, wonderful people, some fantastic people that have been here for a long period of time.”
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