In a major speech on immigration and fighting ISIS, Donald Trump said that he would set up a system of “extreme vetting” for immigrants who wish to enter the United States. This would include an ideological test to measure the extent to which the immigrant agrees with American values. These will include belief in gay rights.
The tests will also require belief in gender equality, tolerance, and pluralism.
Notice the shift in what “American values” means. So all Americans throughout our history, including the founders of the nation, before the recent rise of feminism and the gay rights era, did not have “American values.”
Then consider: Would Donald Trump let you get into the country?
From Jill Colvin, Trump to propose political tests for immigrants, Associated Press:
Trump on Monday is also expected to outline a new immigration policy proposal under which the U.S. would stop issuing visas in any case where it cannot perform adequate screenings.
It will be the latest version of a policy that began with Trump’s unprecedented call to temporarily bar foreign Muslims from entering the country — a religious test that was criticized across party lines as un-American. Following a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June, Trump introduced a new standard.
“As he laid out in his Orlando remarks, Mr. Trump will describe the need to temporarily suspend visa issuances to geographic regions with a history of exporting terrorism and where adequate checks and background vetting cannot occur,” Miller said.
Trump is also expected to propose creating a new, ideological test for admission to the country that would assess a candidate’s stances on issues like religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights. Through questionnaires, searching social media, interviewing friends and family or other means, applicants would be vetted to see whether they support American values like tolerance and pluralism.
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Read his speech.
Read this from a gay supporter who says that Trump has now gone beyond the Democrats in pro-gay policies.
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