克莱夫，爱荷华州-在硬线上加倍下注移居前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周一发誓要阻止长期以来激励他的基础的政策难民如果他在上周以色列致命袭击后赢得第二个任期，立即扩大他的第一个任期的穆斯林旅行禁令。
特朗普在爱荷华州对支持者发表讲话时说，如果他回到椭圆形办公室，他将立即开始对所有移民进行“意识形态筛查”，并禁止那些同情哈马斯和穆斯林极端分子的人。以色列和哈马斯之间的战争引发了双方五次加沙战争中最致命的一次，超过4000人死亡。
他的提议将标志着有争议的——法律上可疑的——政策的急剧扩张，这些政策引起了移民权利和公民自由活动者的警觉，但帮助他在2016年赢得了共和党初选。特朗普长期以来一直指责美国从他称为劣等国家的国家，特别是非洲和中东国家接收移民，并在周一告诉人群，在他担任总统期间，美国支持以色列和“犹太-基督教文明和价值观”。
特朗普还继续把自己描绘成忠诚支持者的烈士，抨击他面临的四项起诉，以及监督华盛顿2020年选举干预案的联邦法官周一施加的一项狭隘的禁言令。特朗普承诺上诉的这项命令禁止他发表针对检察官、可能的证人和法院工作人员的言论。
“如果这是让我们的国家再次成为一个民主国家的代价，我愿意坐牢，”他在《克莱夫》中说。
特朗普承诺禁止逃离10月7日意外袭击后以色列报复性打击的加沙难民入境，正如他在第一个任期内试图通过行政命令禁止七个穆斯林占多数的国家的公民入境一样。然而，这项行政命令遭到了激烈的反对，一直打到最高法院。高等法院最终支持了第三版禁令，其中包括来自朝鲜和一些委内瑞拉的游客。
共产主义和极权主义政党的现任和前任成员及其同情者已经被禁止进入美国，但特朗普在得梅因郊区告诉约1500人，如果他赢得第二个任期，美国将不再允许他所谓的“危险的疯子、仇恨者、偏执者和疯子在我们国家获得居留权。”
“如果你同情激进的伊斯兰恐怖分子和极端分子，你就被取消了资格，”他说。“如果你想废除以色列国，你就失去了资格。如果你支持哈马斯或任何与此相关的意识形态，或任何其他在人们头脑中出现的真正病态的想法——非常危险的想法——你就被取消了资格。”
这位前总统和共和党领跑者还表示，他将积极驱逐具有“圣战同情”的外国居民，并派遣移民代理人参加“亲圣战示威”，以确定违反者。
“在对以色列的袭击之后，美国人厌恶地看到大学校园里大批外国公民公开支持恐怖分子。他们在教你的孩子仇恨，”他说。“在特朗普政府的领导下，我们将撤销我们高校中激进的反美和反犹太外国人的学生签证，并将他们直接遣送回国。”
尽管特朗普在克莱夫地平线活动中心的观众为他的提议欢呼，但31岁的信息技术专家Ritu Bansal表示，她支持特朗普，但希望他也能对加沙人民表示同情。
“在我看来，美国政府应该关心哈马斯袭击以色列的受害者和加沙的平民受害者，”班萨尔说。“美国可以兼顾这两者。”
特朗普今年秋天加强了他的党团竞选活动，他的团队试图锁定支持，不仅要避免重复他2016年获得第二名的经历，还要赢得压倒性的胜利，这将使任何获得第二名的人失去动力。
早些时候，特朗普在爱荷华州农村达拉斯县召集了党团会议，在那里他得到了州司法部长的支持，并预测在共和党竞选的第一个州开始投票前三个月会取得压倒性胜利。
爱荷华州的共和党司法部长Brenna Bird曾担任爱荷华州前众议员Steve King的办公室主任，以及前州长特里·布兰斯塔德和州长Kim Reynolds的助手。去年，伯德击败了长期担任民主党司法部长的汤姆·米勒。
截至周一下午晚些时候，特朗普在不到一个月的时间里，已经在大约1.3万人面前开展了竞选活动。与他在2016年的凭直觉竞选不同，特朗普的团队正在利用候选人的名人吸引感兴趣的共和党人，并跟踪在1月15日举行的第一轮党团会议上支持他的兴趣。
“九十一天。你准备好了吗?”特朗普要求1000多名支持者挤进阿德尔达拉斯县游乐场的牲畜博览会谷仓。“我们将迎来历史性的压倒性胜利，”特朗普站在巨大的干草捆旁边预测道。
特朗普的顾问希望锁定一个井喷，阻止关于第二名终结者巩固支持并直接挑战前总统的言论。
特朗普在2016年以第二名的成绩落后于得克萨斯州参议员特德·克鲁兹，这是一个由大量人群组成但几乎没有组织的乌合之众的努力，州共和党工作人员清理了他的党团竞选办公室，发现了数千张从未被记录的签名誓言卡。
“我可以向你保证，没有积压，”特朗普高级顾问、早期状态协调员亚历克斯·拉查姆(Alex Latcham)说。
Trump's Iowa campaign ramps up its organizing after chaotic 2016 second-place effort
Audience members react as former President Donald Trump arrives at a commit to caucus rally, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, in Adel, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
The Associated Press
CLIVE, Iowa --Doubling down on the hard-lineimmigrationpolicies that have long animated his base, former President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to barrefugeesfrom Gaza and immediately expand his first-term Muslim travel ban if he wins a second term following the deadly attack on Israel last week.
Speaking to supporters in Iowa, Trump said that if he returns to the Oval Office, he will immediately begin “ideological screening” for all immigrants and bar those who sympathize with Hamas and Muslim extremists. The war between Israel and Hamas has sparked what is now the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides, with more than 4,000 dead.
His proposals would mark a dramatic expansion of the controversial — and legally dubious — policies that drew alarm from immigrant rights and civil liberties activists, but helped him win the GOP primary in 2016. Trump has long railed against the U.S. taking immigrants from countries he has dubbed inferior, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and told the crowd Monday that while he was president the U.S. stood up for Israel and “Judeo-Christian civilization and values.”
Trump also continued to paint himself as a martyr for his loyal supporters, railing against the four indictments he is facing along with a narrow gag order that was imposed Monday by the federal judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case against him in Washington. The order, which Trump has pledged to appeal, bars him from making statements targeting prosecutors, possible witnesses and court staff.
“I am willing to go to jail if that’s what it takes for our country to become a democracy again,” he said in Clive.
Trump pledged to bar the entry of refugees from Gaza fleeing Israel’s retaliatory strikes after the surprise Oct. 7 attack, just as he tried to bar citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries during his first term with an executive order. The executive order, however, was met with fierce opposition and was fought all the way to the Supreme Court. The high court eventually upheld a third version of the ban, which included travelers from North Korea and some from Venezuela.
Current and former members of communist and totalitarian parties and their sympathizers are already banned from entry into the U.S. But Trump told about 1,500 people in suburban Des Moines that if he wins a second term, the U.S. would no longer allow what he called “dangerous lunatics, haters, bigots and maniacs to get residency in our country.”
“If you empathize with radical Islamic terrorists and extremists, you’re disqualified," he said. "If you want to abolish the state of Israel, you’re disqualified. If you support Hamas or any ideology that’s having to do with that or any of the other really sick thoughts that go through people’s minds — very dangerous thoughts — you’re disqualified.”
The former president and GOP front-runner also said he would aggressively deport resident aliens with “jihadist sympathies” and send immigration agents to “pro-jihadist demonstrations” to identify violators.
“In the wake of the attacks on Israel, Americans have been disgusted to see the open support for terrorists among the legions of foreign nationals on college campuses. They’re teaching your children hate,” he said. “Under the Trump administration, we will revoke the student visas of radical anti-American and anti-Semitic foreigners at our colleges and universities and we will send them straight back home."
Though Trump's audience in the Horizon Events Center in Clive cheered his proposals, 31-year-old information technology specialist Ritu Bansal said she supported Trump but hoped he would also show compassion for the people of Gaza.
“In my opinion the U.S. government should care for the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel and the civilian victims in Gaza,” Bansal said. “The U.S. can care for both.”
Trump has stepped up his caucus campaigning this fall as his team tries to lock in support to not only avoid a repeat of his 2016 second-place finish but to win an overwhelming victory that would deny momentum to whoever finishes in second place.
Earlier, Trump rallied caucusgoers in Iowa’s rural Dallas County, where he received the endorsement of the state’s attorney general and predicted a landslide victory three months before voting begins in the GOP contest’s kickoff state.
Brenna Bird, Iowa's Republican attorney general, served previously as former Iowa Rep. Steve King’s chief of staff as well as an aide to former Gov. Terry Branstad and Gov. Kim Reynolds. Last year, Bird beat longtime Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller.
By late Monday afternoon, Trump had campaigned before roughly 13,000 people in less than a month. Unlike his seat-of-the-pants campaign in 2016, Trump's team is using the candidate's celebrity to draw interested Republicans and track interest in supporting him in the leadoff caucuses set for Jan. 15.
“Ninety-one days. Are you ready?” Trump asked more than 1,000 supporters packed into a livestock expo barn at the Dallas County fairgrounds in Adel. “We’re going to have a historic landslide,” Trump predicted as he stood flanked by giant bales of hay.
Trump's advisers want to lock in a blowout that discourages talk of a second-place finisher consolidating support and taking on the former president directly.
After Trump’s second-place 2016 finish behind Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a ragtag effort of big crowds but little organization, state GOP staffers cleaned out his caucus campaign office to find thousands of signed pledge cards that had never been logged.
“I can promise you there is no backlog," said Alex Latcham, a senior Trump adviser and early-state coordinator.
