Former President Donald Trump said in a speech in Iowa on Friday that he would reinstate the travel ban to prevent riots like France from occurring.
In France, riots erupted after police shot dead a 17-year-old boy who disobeyed a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Police arrested more than 180 people in the riot and set fire to dozens of buildings, including police stations and schools. (Related: ‘They are your neighbors now’: President Trump slams Biden over border security, days after illegal immigrants allegedly killed five)
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“When I return to office, the travel ban will come back even wider and stronger than before,” Trump said in his speech. “We don’t want people blowing up shopping centers, we don’t want people blowing up our cities, we don’t want people stealing our farms. It’s not going to happen. “
“The United States will not suffer the same fate as France,” Trump said. “And when I first met Macron, I said this would happen.”
On January 28, 2017, President Trump issued a travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries linked to terrorism. The ban was upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court ruling of 5-4.
“We must redouble our efforts to ensure that everyone who visits America shares our values and assimilates into our culture,” Trump told an audience at Council Bluffs, Iowa. “We don’t want people who hate us coming into this country. We want people who love us.”
“Who the hell wants us to open our borders and let the world in and throw all the mentally ill and convicted murderers and convicted people into our country?” Trump later said. Asked. “I mean, who wants it? How is it good for us?”
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