Trump Calls for Ideology Test to Screen for Terrorists
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Donald Trump’s plan to prevent terrorist attacks on American soil includes a screening test meant to allow entrance only to immigrants "who we expect to flourish in our country."
"In the Cold War we had an ideological screening test. The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today," the Republican presidential nominee said in a national-security speech Monday afternoon at Youngstown State University in Ohio. "I call it extreme vetting. I call it extreme. Extreme vetting. Our country has enough problems. We don't need more. And these are problems like we've never had before."