The former US President Donald Trump If he is re-elected next year, he has announced that he will renew the entry ban on citizens of several Muslim countries that he had already imposed during his presidency. “We will keep radical Islamic terrorists out of our country,” he said at the annual meeting of the Jewish Association within the Republican Party. “On day one I will reintroduce our entry ban.”
At the beginning of his Presidency In 2017, Trump introduced significant restrictions on entry from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Sudan. He later expanded the list of affected countries to include several African states.
The order was quickly challenged in court as discriminatory, but remained popular among the then-president’s supporters. The incumbent president Joe Biden lifted the restrictions in his first week in office in early 2021.
Like the US broadcaster CNN reported, Trump announced on Monday that he would introduce “strict ideological tests for all migrants to the United States.” He also wants to cancel student visas for “radical anti-American and anti-Semitic foreigners” and expel them from the country.
Trump is building on his own Israel-friendly policies
The announcement could be an attempt by Trump to use the war in the Middle East for campaign purposes and to build on his pro-Israel positions as president. At that time, Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory.
At the meeting of Jewish people republican Like other candidates for the Republican candidacy in next year’s presidential election, he reiterated his support for Israel. Trump described Israel’s war with Hamas as a “battle between civilization and barbarism.”
Support for Israel is an important issue for both major US parties. Unlike most foreign policy issues, Israel policy could influence the voting behavior of many people, for example because of the large number of Jewish voters.
Jewish voters support Biden in 2020
In polls In June they voted for Biden with almost a three-quarters majority, including in the 2020 election had Biden has almost 80 percent of Jewish voters behind him.
In surveys that are representative of all US voters, Trump was recently roughly on a par with the incumbent head of state. Trump is also considered the favorite for the presidential nomination within the Republican Party. His former deputy Mike Pence only withdrew from the election campaign on Saturday. Florida’s second-place governor, Ron DeSantis, is far behind Trump, according to polls. However, it is difficult to predict how the numerous legal proceedings against Trump could affect his candidacy.
The former US President Donald Trump If he is re-elected next year, he has announced that he will renew the entry ban on citizens of several Muslim countries that he had already imposed during his presidency. “We will keep radical Islamic terrorists out of our country,” he said at the annual meeting of the Jewish Association within the Republican Party. “On day one I will reintroduce our entry ban.”
At the beginning of his Presidency In 2017, Trump introduced significant restrictions on entry from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Sudan. He later expanded the list of affected countries to include several African states.