US President Barack Obama has lashed out at Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz over his call for surveillance on America’s Muslim communities.
“As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Senator Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free,” Obama said Wednesday in Argentina after leaving Cuba on his Latin America tour.
Obama called such an idea “wrong and un-American,” adding that it would undermine the US campaign against extremists.
“The notion that we would start down that slippery slope makes absolutely no sense,” he noted.
A day after deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium, some Republican hopefuls have called for drastic measures to prevent similar strikes in the US.
Cruz said Muslim neighborhoods in America should be put under special watch in order to prevent any…