US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is blaming poor immigrant screening for a trio of recent attacks and says his administration would enact policies that would solely admit immigrants “who love our country”.
Speaking at a packed rally in Fort Myers, Florida, Trump declared that, “You can’t have vetting if you don’t look at ideology.”
The GOP nominee says recent attacks in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota are examples of how poor screening puts all Americans in danger.
On the other hand, Hillary Clinton says she understands how to fight terrorism and is the only candidate running for president who “has been part of the hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield.”
The Democratic presidential nominee took questions from reporters about the weekend bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey, which officials say increasingly look like acts of terrorism with a foreign connection.
Clinton called the attacks “a serious challenge” that the country can meet in “concert with our values”.
That was a dig at the proposals of Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has said he would bar immigration from nations with ties to terrorism.
(With inputs from AP.)
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