Immigrants face extreme vetting tests, says Trump

DONALD Trump has pledged to introduce ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants if he enters the White House.

The Republican presidential nominee vowed to combat Islamic extremism by bringing in a screening test for arrivals to the US.

In a speech in Ohio, he said applicants would be tested to determine if they share Western liberal values like gay rights and religious tolerance.

Democratic rival Hillary Clinton described the plan as a ‘cynical ploy’. Her spokesman said: ‘How can Trump put this forward with a straight face when he opposes marriage equality and selected as his running mate the man [Mike Pence] who signed an anti-LGBT law in Indiana?’

Under Mr Trump’s plan, citizens

‘It is a cynical ploy’

from countries with a history of terror will be banned – but he did not make it clear which nations would be covered.

In the speech, he did not lay out his own military strategy for defeating Islamic State.

But he repeated his claim that he was opposed to the Iraq War before it began, which fact checkers say is untrue.

The candidate said the oil in Iraq should have been seized by the US to prevent it becoming the property of Islamic State.

Mr Trump also promised to make alliances with all countries fighting against terrorism, keep Guantanamo Bay prison open, and work with Nato, despite previously calling it ‘obsolete’.

Recent polls show Mr Trump significantly trailing his Democratic rival in key battleground states.