Donald Trump speaks in Florida on Monday.
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Donald Trump on Monday renewed his calls for curbing immigration from countries where "safe and adequate screening cannot occur," citing recent bombings in New York and New Jersey as proof that the government wasn't doing enough to keep Americans safe.
In his speech at Fort Myers, Florida, Trump said Hillary Clinton would allow more refugees in, putting the United States at greater risk of even more homegrown terror attacks.
"We should temporarily suspend immigration entering from regions where safe and adequate screening cannot occur," Trump said. “We want people to come into our country but they have to come legally, through a process, and we need extreme screening.”
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If potential immigrants aren’t able to be screened, then they shouldn’t be allowed into the US, Trump added.
“This isn’t just a matter of terrorism, this is really a question of quality of life,” Trump said. “We want to make sure we’re only admitting people into our country who love our country, we want them to love our country, and we want them to love our people.”
The Republican nominee also mentioned the suspect in Saturday's bombings in New York and New Jersey, calling Ahmad Khan Rahami — a US citizen who was born in Afghanistan — an "evil thug."
And while he congratulated law enforcement for catching him, Trump lamented that the “bad part now” is Rahami, who injured in a shootout, will get top notch medical care and likely be represented by an “outstanding lawyer.”
“He’ll probably even have room service, knowing the way our country is,” Trump said.
Trump also criticized Clinton and President Obama for refusing to say “radical Islamic terrorism.”
“We will not defeat it with closed eyes or silent voices,” Trump said. “Anyone who cannot name our enemy is not fit to lead this country.”
An applicant’s ideology must be considered when deciding whether or not they should be allowed to immigrate to the US, Trump said, adding that Clinton would refuse to consider someone’s world.
"In the 20th century the US defeated fascism, nazism, and communism,” Trump said. “Now we must defeat radical terrorism."
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Trump also read the lyrics of “The Snake” a song about a woman who takes in a weak snake and is later killed by its poisonous bite.
He used the song to show the dangers of allowing Syrian and other immigrants into the U.S., saying it will lead to homegrown terror attacks and worse than the Trojan Horse.
“People are coming across our borders, people are coming into our country and we are going to make the Trojan Horse something that is unimportant,” Trump said. “This has to do with people coming into our country.”
The late Oscar Brown Jr., a Chicago poet and singer, wrote the song. Brown’s family has asked Trump to stop using “The Snake” in his speeches, according to the Chicago Tribune, saying Brown would be on the “polar opposite side” of Trump.
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