Donald Trump wants new ideological test for admission to US

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Donald Trump will call for a new ideological test for admission to the United States&comma; vetting applicants on their stance on issues such as religious freedom&comma; gender equality and gay rights&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The policy would represent a significant shift in how the US manages entry into the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a speech in swing state Ohio&comma; Mr Trump will also call for &&num;8220&semi;foreign policy realism&&num;8221&semi; and an end to nation-building if elected president&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He will argue that the United States needs to work with anyone who shares the mission of destroying the so-called &&num;8216&semi;Islamic State&&num;8217&semi; &lpar;IS&rpar; group and other extremist organisations&comma; regardless of other disagreements&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s speech will explain that while we can&&num;8217&semi;t choose our friends&comma; we must always recognise our enemies&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Republican nominee&&num;8217&semi;s foreign policy address comes during a rocky stretch for his campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He has struggled to stay on message and has consistently overshadowed his policy rollouts&comma; including an economic speech last week&comma; with provocative statements&comma; including falsely declaring that President Barack Obama was the &&num;8220&semi;founder&&num;8221&semi; of &&num;8216&semi;IS&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Democrat Hillary Clinton has spent the summer hammering Mr Trump as unfit to serve as Commander in Chief&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She has been bolstered by a steady stream of Republican national security experts who argue the billionaire businessman lacks the temperament and knowledge of world affairs to be president&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton is focusing on domestic themes as she campaigns in Pennsylvania with vice president Joe Biden&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is expected to spend significant time in his speech going after Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton&comma; the former Secretary of State&comma; blaming them for policies he argues allowed &&num;8216&semi;IS&&num;8217&semi; to spread&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is expected to say that any country that wants to work with the US to defeat &&num;8220&semi;radical Islamic terrorism&&num;8221&semi; will be a US ally &&num;8211&semi; though aides did not specify which countries that position refers to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He will also call for declaring in explicit terms that&comma; like during the Cold War&comma; the US is in an ideological conflict with radical Islam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Obama&comma; Mrs Clinton and top US officials have warned against using that kind of language to describe the conflict&comma; arguing that it plays into militants&&num;8217&semi; hands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Mr Trump will outline his vision for defeating radical Islamic terrorism&comma; and explain how the policies of Obama-Clinton are responsible for the rise of Isis &lpar;&&num;8216&semi;IS&&num;8217&semi;&rpar; and the spread of barbarism that has taken the lives of so many&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Miller said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s new immigration policy&comma; the government would use questionnaires&comma; social media&comma; interviews with friends and family or other means to determine if applicants support American values such as tolerance and pluralism&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US would stop issuing visas in any case where it cannot perform adequate screenings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is unclear how US officials would assess the veracity of responses to the questionnaires or how much manpower it would require to complete such arduous vetting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The campaign has yet to say whether additional screenings would apply to the millions of tourists who spend billions of dollars visiting the United States each year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It will be the latest version of a policy that began with Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s unprecedented call to temporarily bar foreign Muslims from entering the country &&num;8211&semi; a religious test that was criticised across party lines as un-American&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando&comma; Florida&comma; in June&comma; Mr Trump introduced a new standard&comma; vowing to &&num;8220&semi;suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States&comma; Europe or our allies&comma; until we fully understand how to end these threats&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That proposal raised numerous questions that the campaign never clarified&comma; including whether it would apply to citizens of countries such as France&comma; Israel or Ireland&comma; which have suffered recent and past attacks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump had promised to release his list of &&num;8220&semi;terror countries&&num;8221&semi; soon&period; But now&comma; aides say&comma; the campaign needs access to unreleased Department of Homeland Security data to assess exactly where the most serious threats lie&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Mr Trump has been criticised for failing to lay out detailed policies&comma; 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