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Trump: Muslim-American Assimiliation Close to Nonexistent

Despite survey data showing otherwise.

Donald Trump claims Muslim-Americans’ assimilation is “close” to “nonexistent.” In a friendly interview Tuesday evening with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said he believes it is difficult to vet Muslim immigrants for who seeks to cause harm to the U.S., adding, “Assimilation has been very hard. It’s almost—I won’t say nonexistent, but it gets to be pretty close. I’m talking about second- and third-generation. They come, they don’t—for some reason there’s no real assimilation.” Trump also stated that of the 8 million Muslims living in the United States, an unspecified “percentage” of those seek to engage in terror. “There is a percentage of people that want to do what this maniac did in Orlando. There’s a percentage of people. That percentage becomes—the number of people become more and more as we take in thousands and thousands of more people.”