In the bizarro world of Donald Trump, we’re continually reminded that every policy pronouncement is really just a whimsical moving target—including that whole Muslim ban, which initially seemed so simple. Not so, says Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson. It's actually much more complicated, since Trump really meant to include ANYONE traveling from "terrorist nations." Caitlin MacNeal reports on Pierson's latest CNN utterances:
"Mr. Trump is going to be refining his policy — putting out more specific details, which everyone’s been asking for, but there has been no change. He still does not want to allow individuals to come into this country who cannot be vetted."
"Individuals or Muslims?" [CNN's Brianna] Keilar then asked.
Pierson then focused on Trump barring immigrants who "cannot be vetted."
"Well, it doesn’t matter really where you’re coming from, except for the fact of the terrorist nations, which he is adding to this policy to make it more clear that if you are coming from a hostile nation, and you cannot be vetted, absolutely you should not come unto this country," she said. "But individuals are the same. We cannot allow individuals to come into this country that cannot be vetted."
Oh, so not just Muslims anymore—“individuals” is what we're focusing on now. Maybe Trump got word that his religious test for entry into the country wasn't playing so well to the broader public. So now his "immigration policy" will just be broadly xenophobic by excluding people based on some arbitrary standard of terror he has yet to define. If you're looking for a little more confusing detail on Trump's ever evolving "immigration policy," AP has a great chronology. Bottom line: Who knows? We could all be next on the list.