'Extreme vetting' is Donald
Trump's favourite phrase. He always use it to convey his viewpoint on how to
regulate entry of foreigners in the United States. During an interview last
year, he had said that he didn't care what people called it but, if elected, he
would see to it that people from suspicious countries are subjected to 'deep
scrutiny'.
An NBC News report quoted
Donald Trump saying, "We're going to have a thing called 'extreme
vetting.' And if people want to come in, there's going to be extreme vetting.
We're going to have extreme vetting. They're going to come in and we're going
to know where they came from and who they are." He reiterated this in his
speeches and tweets.
After becoming the US
president, he introduced his highly controversial travel ban plan, targeting
people from some Muslim majority countries, which was banned by the courts for
being discriminatory and in bad taste. In defence, he tweeted that the US
needed 'strong borders and extreme vetting.
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
@realDonaldTrump
Our country needs strong
borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and,
indeed, the world - a horrible mess!
6:38 PM - 29 Jan 2017
In the light of Donald
Trump's failed travel ban plans and his harsh rhetoric on immigrants, refugees,
foreign nationals visiting the US, Muslims and racial minorities, we are going
to hear more and more of this phrase.
Like it is phrased, it is
going to be more and more extreme in coming days as Trump and his
administration will try to impose its narrow worldview in the context of
Trump's mounting failures and controversies.
Trump won the US polls riding
high on an inward looking, divisive agenda and embarked soon on implementing it
with prolific disdain for the global trade and military agreements including
the NATO, his desperate emphasis on ejecting out immigrants and racial
minorities, his audacious verbal launch of the wall along the Mexican border
that miserably failed and most recently, his biggest debacle so far, when he
and his Republican Party could not garner enough votes in the US Congress to
'repeal and replace' Obamacare, the healthcare programme launched by Barack
Obama in 2010. Trump's loss precipitates even more because he demonized
Obamacare like anything.
But as most of these Trump
policies have failed or have attracted domestic as well as international
condemnation, Trump and his team may chose to play even harder its inward
looking, divisive agenda that had initially propelled his supporters, in order
to divert attention from his increasing failures and decreasing popularity.
Indications coming out from the most powerful public office in the world tell
so.
©SantoshChaubey