We doubt if this kind of move would even mess up Donald Trump’s hair.
A congressman in the Philippines has filed a resolution that would ban United States presidential candidate Trump from entering the country.
Jose “Joey” Salceda — who represents Albay, a province located in the Bicol region, south of Metro Manila — filed the measure at the country’s House of Representatives in response to Trump’s recent remarks.
It may be recalled that at a rally in Portland, Maine, earlier this month, Trump had identified the Philippines as one of the “terrorist nations” that the U.S. should be wary of.
Trump had declared, “We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them. You have no idea who they are. This could be the great Trojan horse of all time.”
Trump went on to list several countries that he felt posed some threats: Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Yemen. Trump noted that these countries allegedly “had immigrants who were arrested for conducting or threatening to carry out violent attacks, teaching bomb-making to recruits, and otherwise supporting terror groups.”
As such, in House Resolution No. 43, Salceda accuses Trump of being “inimical to the national interest.” He pointed out that billionaire’s recent “terrorist nations” tirade is “unreasonable.”
“Salceda also said he is concerned that Trump’s pronouncement had demonstrated ‘negative, dysfunctionally nativist, aggressively adversarial attitude towards immigrants in the USA. where he aspires to be the leader,'” reports Rosette Adel on Philstar.com.
To support his resolution, Salceda cited Memorandum Order No. ADD-01-005 dated Mar 29, 2001 issued by the country’s Bureau of Immigration and Deportation which list grounds to exclude and deny foreign nationals entry into the Philippines.
The explanatory note for the resolution reads: “While Donald J. Trump has clearly generated impressions not conducive to public good and has shown disrespect or makes offensive utterances to the Filipino people. Be it resolved, as it is hereby resolved, that the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation refuse Donald J. Trump, be permanently refused entry into the Philippines.”
Then again, Congressional resolutions, passed to express the “sense” or position of a house, are not exactly binding. Still, Trump should hopefully get the message.
