Trump defends restricted entry for Muslims
US President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that
his plan to limit the entry of people from several Muslim countries was
necessary because the world is “a total mess”.
Interviewed on ABC News, Trump denied that it was
a ban on Muslims. “No it’s not the Muslim ban, but it’s countries
that have tremendous terror,” Trump said.
“And it’s countries that people are going to come
in and cause us tremendous problems. Our country has enough problems without
allowing people to come in, who in many cases or in some cases, are looking to
do tremendous destruction.”
Trump refused to be pinned down on which countries
he was talking about, but did say that he believed that Europe “made a
tremendous mistake by allowing these millions of people to go into Germany and
various other countries, and all you have to do is take a look, it’s a disaster
what’s happening over there.”
According to a draft executive order published in
US media, refugees from war-torn Syria will be indefinitely banned, the broader
US refugee admissions program will be suspended for 120 days, and all visa
applications from countries deemed a terrorist threat — Iraq, Syria, Iran,
Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen — will be halted for 30 days.
Trump was asked if he was concerned that this
would anger Muslims around the world.
“Anger? There’s plenty of anger right now. How can
you have more?” he said.
“The world is a mess. The world is as angry as it
gets. What, you think this is going to cause a little more anger? The world is
an angry place. All of this has happened. We went into Iraq. We shouldn’t have
gone into Iraq. We shouldn’t have gotten out the way we got out. The world is a
total mess.”
According to the draft decree, Trump intends to
halve the number of refugees entering the United States during the 2017 fiscal
year, which ends on September 30.
While the administration of former president
Barack Obama had set a target of accepting more than 100,000 refugees this
year, the Trump administration aims to slash that to 50,000.
Punch
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