Israel war: Trump calls for ideological screening of immigrants in speech objecting to taking in Middle Eastern refugees

Former President Donald Trump called for the ideological screening of immigrants, and he advocated the rejection of refugees from Gaza.

The former president made the remarks during a campaign event in Iowa. Trump reaffirmed a commitment to his controversial travel ban, a major point of his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump said that the country had “no choice” but to reinstitute the ban.

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“Democrats fought us like crazy over the travel ban, you know that, they fought us like crazy. I had to go through the whole court system but after 18 months in Court, the Supreme Court finally ruled the travel ban was totally constitutional, because we want to keep bad people out that want to destroy our country,” Trump recounted. “As President, I also suspended refugee resettlement when we entered office in 2017. Nobody had ever heard of it before. We didn’t want that. And we’ll do it again. We’ll put it right back into place.”

“I banned refugees from Syria. I banned refugees from Somalia. Very dangerous places, and from all of the most dangerous places all over the world,” he continued. “I banned them, I said, ‘I’m sorry.’ And in my second term, we’re going to expand each and every one of those bans because we have no choice. Some very rough people. Some very, very rough people come out of those areas. They want to blow up our country. We aren’t bringing in anyone from Gaza, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, or Libya or anywhere else. That threatens our security.”

Tying in the latest war in Israel and Gaza, Trump referred negatively to protesters in cities across the United States who expressed support for the Palestinian cause last Friday, deriding them as “barbarians.” He pledged to send immigration agents to all related protests to deport anyone who was found to not be in the nation legally.

“The mobs of… I mean, literally, barbarians that we saw on the streets of New York, and other cities last week, have no place in America,” Trump proclaimed. “We can’t have it. We have to — no country can sustain it. And we all want to be nice, but no country can sustain it.”

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“Jewish mothers and fathers should never have to send their children to school here and fear they’ll be shot or stabbed on a so-called day of jihad, which is happening, which is happening— a day of jihad,” he said. “Under my administration, we will proactively send ICE to pro-jihadist demonstrations to enforce our immigration laws and remove the violators from our country. Many of these people are not from our country, and many of them are being supported with radical left money.”

The rally saw Trump revive many of the key points from his 2016 campaign, such as the travel ban, which had largely gone unmentioned in his campaign so far.