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ByJillColvinandJulie Pace The Associated Press YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO Don- ald Trump called Monday for "extreme vetting" of im- migrants seeking admis- sion to the United States, vowing to block those who sympathize with extrem- ist groups or don't embrace American values. He said the policy would first re- quire a temporary halt in immigration from danger- ous regions of the world. Speaking in swing state Ohio, Trump also said his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton lacks the "mental and physical stamina" to take on the Islamic State. He said destroying the ter- ror group would be the cen- terpiece of his foreign pol- icy and he would partner with any countries that share that goal — specifi- cally singling out Russia as a nation the U.S. could have a better relationship with. "Any country that shares this goal will be our allies," Trump said. "We can never choose our friends, but we can never fail to recognize our enemies." Ahead of Trump's ad- dress, Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden vigor- ously challenged the Repub- lican nominee's prepared- ness to be commander in chief. Biden called Trump's views "dangerous" and "un- American" and warned that Trump's false asser- tions last week about Presi- dentObamafoundingtheIs- lamic State could be used by extremists to target Ameri- canservicemembersinIraq. "The threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks," he said. While Trump has been harshly critical of Obama's handling of the threat posed by the Islamic State, his own policies for defeat- ing the group remain vague. His most specific prescrip- tions centered on changing U.S. immigration policy to keep potential attackers from entering the country. Trump's campaign aides said the new ideological test for admission to the United States would vet applicants for their stance on issues like religious freedom, gen- der equality and gay rights. The government would use questionnaires, social me- dia, interviews with friends and family or other means to determine if applicants support American values like tolerance and plural- ism. The U.S. would stop issuing visas in any case where it cannot perform adequate screenings. Trump did not clarify how U.S. officials would as- sesstheveracityofresponses to the questionnaires or how muchmanpoweritwouldre- quire to complete such ar- duous vetting. Nor did the campaign say whether addi- tional screenings would ap- ply to the millions of tour- ists who spend billions of dollars visiting the United States each year. The Republican nom- inee's foreign policy ad- dress comes during a rocky stretch for his campaign. He's struggled to stay on message and has consis- tently overshadowed his policy rollouts, including an economic speech last week, with provocative state- ments, including his com- ments falsely declaring that Obama was the "founder" of the Islamic State. Trump spent much of the speech building a case that Obama and Clinton are to blame for the creation of the terror group that has roiled the Middle East and carried out attacks in the West. He specifically highlighted the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in late 2011, ar- guing the move created a vacuum for terror groups to thrive. Reiterating a favorite criticism of Republicans, Trump also panned the Obama administration for not using the phrase "radi- cal Islamic terrorism" to de- scribe sympathizers. Obama, Clinton and top U.S. officials have warned against using that kind of language to describe the conflict, arguing that it plays into militants' hands. Trump's immigration proposals were the latest version of a policy that be- gan with his unprecedented call to temporarily bar for- eign Muslims from enter- ing the country — a reli- gious test that was criti- cized across party lines as un-American. Following a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June, Trump introduced a new standard, vowing to "sus- pend immigration from ar- eas of the world where there is a proven history of ter- rorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats." That proposal raised nu- merous questions that the campaign never clarified, including whether it would apply to citizens of coun- tries like France, Israel, or Ireland, which have suf- fered recent and past at- tacks. 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