‘I’d throw him out’: Trump says he’d deport Omar Mateen’s US citizen father over ‘extreme views’
In a Wednesday night interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that he would deport the father of Omar Mateen, the man who killed 49 people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando — in spite of his status as a U.S. citizen.
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Regarding Seddique Mateen, Hannity asked, “What do we do when we find somebody that has extreme views? Do we throw them the hell out?”
“I’d throw him out,” Trump said as the audience cheered.
“If you look at him, I’d throw him out. You know, I looked at him. And you look, he’s smiling.”
Our government and those of others like the Brits and the French throw out naturalized citizens for a variety of reasons.
Can Your U.S. Citizenship Be Revoked?
Wikipedia has a list of denaturalized and deported US citizens that includes radical Muslims.
Mateen's father Seddique seems to be something of a crackpot, but is also a clear supporter of the Taliban in Pakistan.
Trump's proposal seems to represent a lowering of the bar for denaturalization and deportation, but not by as much as the Raw Story write-up would suggest.
And it would be consistent with his advocacy of ideological screening of prospective immigrants (not actually an innovation - we already screen out anarchists, communists, and revolutionaries in general, and require an oath of allegiance to the country and its laws and constitution) as well as his expressed concerns that American Muslim immigrants both harbor terrorists and give rise to second generation terrorists.
Laughing at Trump's characterization of Seddique's views as extreme is like laughing at Reagan's claim that Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe was an evil empire.
Liberal airheads laughed and mocked both times, and were wrong both times.
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