Pentagon Trump: Visa Applicants and Vetting Procedure

pentagon trump: We want to ensure that we are not letting into our country the very threats that our soldiers are fighting overseas, Trump said after swearing in new Defense Secretary James Mattis at the Pentagon, according to Guelph Mercury. Trump would also block visa applicants entirely from a list of countries with counterterrorism concerns, including Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, until a new extreme vetting procedure for visa applicants could be launched. The White House has yet to release the text of the signed document but a draft obtained earlier showed the measure would block all refugees from entering the U.S. for 120 days and suspend the acceptance of refugees from war-torn Syria indefinitely. The U.S. has admitted more than 3.3 million refugees since 1975, and allowed more than 80,000 refugees in last year alone. The action, seen as part of Trump's campaign pledge to ban Muslims from entering the country, sparked an international outcry, given the historic role that the U.S. and other industrialized nations have long held in embracing victims of war and oppression. Under Trump's plan, those numbers would plummet to a trickle, except for a narrow group of religious minorities that would include Christians fleeing largely Muslim countries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.