WASHINGTON: Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump launched new attacks on immigrants, including Filipinos, Thursday (Friday in Manila), telling supporters that Somalis and other refugees from “terrorist nations” should be barred entry to the United States.

Trump listed several immigrants, mostly countries with Muslim populations—Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Uzbekistan and Yemen—who were arrested for conducting or threatening to carry out violent attacks, teaching bomb-making to recruits, and otherwise supporting terror groups.

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