Incoming White House Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus said Sunday on the NBC’s “Meet The Press” that President-elect Donald Trump’s team is not planning to create a Muslim registry, but would not rule anything out.
Priebus who said he was not going to rule out anything; says Trump administration is not going to have a registry based on a religion.
“But what I think we’re trying to say is that some people are radicalised and those people have to be prevented from coming into this country. And President Trump’s position is consistent with the bills in the House and the Senate that say the following: If you want to come from a place or an area around the world that harbours and trains terrorists, we have to temporarily suspend that operation until a better vetting system is put in place.”
Priebus further maintained that tougher screening was needed before the incoming administration could consider immigration.
“When a better vetting system is put in place then those radical folks, they’ll not be allowed in, but then, others will be allowed in, but only until that is done. That’s what Gen. Michael Flynn believes and that’s what President Trump believes.”
When asked if Trump agrees with incoming National Security Adviser Flynn’s past statement that “fear of Muslims is rational,” Priebus said that the president-elect did not think that religious judgments should be categorical.
“He believes that no faith in and of itself should be judged as a whole,” Priebus said. “But there are some people in countries abroad that need to be prevented… there are some people that need to be prevented from coming into this country
