Foreign policy and immigration on agenda in Trump speech

&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 declare an end to nation building if elected US president&comma; replacing it with what aides described as &&num;8220&semi;foreign policy realism&&num;8221&semi; focused on destroying Islamic State &lpar;IS&rpar; and other extremist organisations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a speech in Ohio&comma; Mr Trump will argue that the United States needs to work with anyone who shares that mission&comma; regardless of other ideological and strategic disagreements&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>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&comma; he is expected to say&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>On the eve of the speech&comma; Hillary Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s campaign slammed Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s campaign manager for ties to Russia and pro-Kremlin interests&comma; an apparent reference to a New York Times story which alleges Paul Manafort received €12&period;7m from Ukraine&&num;8217&semi;s former pro-Russia president and his political party for consultant work over a five-year period&period; The newspaper said Mr Manafort&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer denied his client received any such payments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is also expected to outline a new immigration policy proposal under which the US would stop issuing visas in any case where it cannot perform adequate screenings&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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As he laid out in his Orlando remarks&comma; 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&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Miller said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is also expected to propose creating a new&comma; ideological test for admission to the country that would assess an applicant&&num;8217&semi;s stances on issues such as religious freedom&comma; gender equality and gay rights&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Through questionnaires&comma; searching social media&comma; interviewing friends and family or other means&comma; applicants would be vetted to see whether they support American values such as tolerance and pluralism&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The candidate is also expected to call in the speech for declaring in explicit terms that&comma; like during the Cold War&comma; the nation is in an ideological conflict with radical Islam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s Democratic rival Mrs Clinton and top US government officials have warned of the dangers of 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>While Mr Trump has been criticised in the past for failing to lay out specific policy solutions&comma; aides say that Monday&&num;8217&semi;s speech will again focus on his broader vision&period; Additional speeches with more details are expected in the weeks ahead&comma; they said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is also expected to spend significant time going after President Barack Obama and Mrs Clinton&comma; the former secretary of state&comma; blaming them for enacting policies he argues allowed IS to spread&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;IS&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>The speech comes as Mr Trump has struggled to stay on message&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last week&comma; an economic policy speech he delivered calling for lower corporate taxes and rolling back federal regulations was overshadowed by a series of provocative statements&comma; including falsely declaring that Mr Obama was the &&num;8220&semi;founder&&num;8221&semi; of IS&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s allies said they are confident that this time the billionaire developer will stay on track&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Stay tuned&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s very early in this campaign&period; This coming Monday&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re going to see a vision for confronting radical Islamic terrorism&comma;&&num;8221&semi; his vice presidential running mate&comma; 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