Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US was not just a “suggestion” and if elected to the White House he would no
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US was not just a “suggestion” and if elected to the White House he would not allow Syrian refugees who are “not vetted properly” to come in.
“No, I would not allow people to come in from Syria. They are not vetted properly,” Mr Trump told Fox News Thursday night.
Responding to a question on his remarks a day earlier that his proposal was just a suggestion, the real-estate tycoon said it was not and that he would impement it as Syrian refugees were “moving in by the thousands.”
“We don’t know who they are, and if you look at the migration, you have a lot of young strong men. You look at the women. Where are the women and children You don’t have many by comparison,” Mr Trump said.
“We cannot allow people to come in from Syria, and I would stop it and I would stop it immediately. We have tens of thousands of people coming into this country. We don’t know who they are. There’s no paperwork. There’s no documentation,” Mr Trump asserted.
Mr Trump suggested that there should be “safe zones” built in Syria and he would get the Gulf states to pay for it because “our country has no money.”
Even as Mr Trump stuck to his controversial “temporary” ban call on Musl-ims, 70 American legislators have introduced a bill in the Congress to ensure people were not barred from the US because of their religion.
“We cannot allow fear and paranoia to drive our public policy, especially when it comes to the defining values of our country,” said Congress-man Don Beyer, the legislator behind the move to introduce the Religious Freedom Bill.
