GOP nominee Donald Trump on Monday laid blame for an escalating number of domestic terrorist attacks firmly at the feet of Democrat Hillary Clinton and President Obama.

Speaking at a rally in Fort Myers, Florida, Trump called the former secretary of state “weak and ineffectual,” and suggested her immigration proposals would make the threat posed by Islamic terror even worse.

“These attacks and others were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system, which fails to properly vet and screen the individuals or families coming into our country.”

“These attacks and others were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system, which fails to properly vet and screen the individuals or families coming into our country,” he said. “Gotta be careful. Attack after attack, from 9/11 to San Bernardino, we have seen how failure to screen who is entering the United States puts all of our citizens — everyone in this room — in danger.”

Following a shootout Monday, police in Linden, New Jersey, arrested the man accused of planting bombs in that state and in Manhattan on Saturday. In addition, the Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for a mass stabbing that occurred at a mall in Minnesota. An off-duty officer fatally shot the perpetrator.

Trump depicted the attacks as part of an effort to afflict “genocide” on Christianity and faulted Clinton and President Obama for failing to call the acts radical Islamic terrorism. Failure to identify the enemy is disqualifying for the Oval Office, he said.

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Trump recounted a long list of recent terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe and pivoted to Clinton’s proposal for a 550-percent increase in the number of Syrian refugees admitted into the United States. He said it would be both costly — $400 billion when accounting for lifetime welfare benefits — and expose Americans to unnecessary risk.

Trump said Clinton helped grow terrorist threats with foreign policy blunders as secretary of state and would exacerbate them as president.

“She very much caused the problem, when you think about it,” he said. “Her weakness, her ineffectiveness caused the problem. And now she wants to be president? I don’t think so.”

Trump reiterated a number of proposals he has already made, including:

  • A temporary suspension of immigration from war-torn countries where safe and adequate screening cannot occur.
  • “Extreme screening” procedures to ensure that newcomers views are compatible with American values. This would include, for the first time, an examination of would-be immigrants’ ideology. “You can’t have vetting if you don’t consider ideology,” he said.
  • New laws to give law enforcement officers new tools in questioning terrorism suspects, whom he said should be treated as enemy combatants.

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Trump lamented that Ahmad Khan Rahami, the suspect in the New Jersey and New York bombings, would get the finest medical treatment, an effective lawyer and probably even room service, “knowing the way our country is.”

Trump cited a report released earlier this year by the Senate’s Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest detailing hundreds of immigrants and their children who have been convicted on terrorism-related charges since the 9/11 attacks. And he argued that Clinton made no effort to pressure countries that refuse to accept their citizens under deportation orders from the United States.

Nearly 1 million people, Trump pointed out, are under orders to deport but have not been sent back home.

“Immigration security is national security,” Trump said. “My opponent has the most open borders policy of anyone ever to seek the presidency. As secretary of state, she allowed thousands of criminal aliens to be released into our communities because their home countries didn’t want then.”

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Trump also referred to a Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s report this week indicating that the government mistakenly granted citizenship to 858 immigrants from “special interest” countries who had been under deportation orders.

“These are people who were supposed to be deported and they were given full citizenship,” he said to boos. “They made a mistake. This is unacceptable.”

Trump pledged to “utterly defeat” ISIS through a combination of a rebuilt military, a revitalized economy, and a smarter strategy. He said he would seek to avoid protracted wars, adding that engagement in the Middle East would be guided by realism, not wide-eyed idealism.

“We have to beat them at their own game,” he said. “They’re playing the game much better than they are … Our goal is not to build democracies. Our goal is to defeat — we want to defeat our enemies.”

Trump said any president has “sacred duty” to keep Americans safe and vowed to do just that.

“We cannot let this evil continue,” he said. “Cannot do it … Nor can we let the hateful ideology of radical Islam, its oppression of women, gays, children, and nonbelievers be allowed to reside or spread within our country. Just can’t do it.”