October 31, 2017 9:53pm EDT
Trump orders DHS to "step up" extreme vetting
President Trump tweeted this evening that he has asked the Department of Homeland Security to "step up our already Extreme Vetting Program," a screening policy he first introduced on the campaign trail that would attempt to establish whether applicants' beliefs match US values on gay rights, gender equality and religious freedoms, among others.
I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not for this!
What is extreme vetting?
Trump famously campaigned on a pledge to indefinitely ban Muslims from entering the United States, something his campaign aides later tried to finesse as a broader policy aimed at implementing "extreme vetting" for immigrants from certain countries.
He has since ordered travel bans on a handful of Muslim-majority countries -- Uzbekistan not being one of them -- though US courts have repeatedly blocked them from going into effect.
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