{"id":16509,"date":"2016-08-15T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16509"},"modified":"2016-08-15T18:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:29:34","slug":"trump-calls-for-another-un-american-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16509","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for another un-American policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign is based essentially on his vow to “make America great again.”<\/p>\n

If he means it — and I’m not entirely sure he does — then why on Earth does he keep making patently in-American foreign-policy proposals?<\/p>\n

Here’s the latest one:\u00a0The Republican presidential nominee\u00a0wants to put all immigrants through an ideology test before they are allowed entry into the United States.<\/p>\n

He would\u00a0require customs and immigrations agents to quiz every immigrant seeking residence in the United States about their feelings on such issues as\u00a0gay rights, gender equality and religious freedom.<\/p>\n

If they answer the “right” way, they’re in. If not, they go back. Is that how it works?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-to-call-for-new-ideological-test-for-admission-to-us\/ar-BBvD2lE?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n

We’ve already listened to Trump rail against Muslims while proposing to ban them from entering the United States. He’s called illegal Latin American immigrants rapists, murderers and drug dealers and wants to build a “beautiful wall” across our southern border to keep them out.<\/p>\n

And, oh yes, he talks about all this under the theme of making America great again.<\/p>\n

What utter horse manure!<\/p>\n

He’s going to talk about a plan to discontinue “nation-building” as part of our foreign policy. I actually agree with that. Look what nation-building has brought us: continued bloodshed in Iraq\u00a0after we toppled the dictator Saddam Hussein; more of the same in Afghanistan after we routed the Taliban from power after 9\/11; Libya remains a mess.<\/p>\n

But this idiotic notion of applying an ideological test to all immigrants seeks to throw a shroud over the beacon that draws immigrants to our land in the first place.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign is based essentially on his vow to “make America great again.” If he means it — and I’m not entirely sure he does — then why on Earth does he keep making patently in-American foreign-policy proposals? Here’s the latest one:\u00a0The Republican presidential nominee\u00a0wants to put all immigrants through an ideology … Continue reading Trump calls for another un-American policy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[95,1424,2245,2334,6491,4069,4501],"class_list":["post-16509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-95","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-iraq-war","tag-nation-building","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16512,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509\/revisions\/16512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}