Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday promised the reimposition of a travel ban to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US if he gets re-elected.
“We will keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country,” Trump said while speaking at the annual summit of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
“You remember the travel ban? On day one I will restore our travel ban,” he added.
At the start of his presidency in 2017, Trump had imposed restrictions on the entry of travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and, initially, Iraq and Sudan. The order was quickly challenged in court as discriminatory against a religious group. President Joe Biden reversed the ban in his first week in office in 2021.
Biden “was proud to overturn the vile, un-American Muslim ban enacted by his predecessor,” a White House spokesman had said.
The former US President was among several Republican hopefuls lining up at the gathering of influential Jewish donors to pledge unwavering support for Israel in its war against the Islamic terror group Hamas.
Trump further said that he would “defend our friend and ally in the State of Israel like nobody has ever.”
The conflict between Israel and Hamas is “a fight between civilization and savagery, between decency and depravity, and between good and evil,” he added.
