Does Donald Trump still plan to ban Muslims from the U.S.?
Update 2:52 p.m. ET: Donald Trump's statement on preventing Muslim immigration is back on his website and may have only been removed temporarily due to a technical glitch. Our original post appears below.
Muslim ban? What Muslim ban? Donald Trump's campaign staff have apparently scrubbed the mention of the controversial proposal from his official website. "The proposal was previously detailed on a page titled, 'Donald J. Trump statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration.' That page now redirects to a new page where supporters can donate to the campaign," The Washington Post reports.
Trump has flip-flopped on his banned proposal in the past, both doubling down on it and walking it back or calling it a "suggestion." "The best way to prevent continued radicalization from developing inside America is to suspend temporarily immigration from regions that have been a major source for terrorists and their supporters coming to the U.S.," Trump's policy director Stephen Miller clarified as late as July.
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The language might still allow for targeting countries with heavy Muslim populations and many critics remain nervous about Trump's changing policy. "I don't know that [Trump] knows himself [what his policy is] because it's a minute-by-minute thing based on who is asking the question," spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations Ibrahim Hooper told The Wall Street Journal.
As for the ban on visas from certain regions? That language has already made it to Trump's government transition page. Jeva Lange
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