Republican
presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said he would send back
Syrian refugees taken in by the US if he is elected president.
Trump
said during a rally in New Hampshire on Wednesday that he was worried
the refugees could be disguised members of the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) group.
“I
am putting the people on notice that are coming here from Syria as part
of this mass migration, that if I win, if I win, they are going back,
they are going back, I am telling you, they are going back,” Trump said.
His
remarks came the same day Russian warplanes began air raids in Syria’s
centre and north – their first military engagement outside the former
Soviet Union since the occupation of Afghanistan in 1979.
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“Look,
if Russia wants to go in there, [it] would have been nice if we went in
as a unified front, to be honest. But if Russia wants to go in there
and knock out ISIS (ISIL) and maybe stabilise, this big migration with
200,000 people into the United States…” Trump later reiterated to CNN.
“If
I win, I’m going to say it right now and I’ll say it to you, those
200,000 people – they have to know this and the world will hear it – are
going back.
“We’re
not going to accept 200,000 people that may be ISIS. We have no idea
who they are. And I’m telling you now, they may come in through the
weakness of (President Barack) Obama,” but would return to their
homeland if Trump makes it to the White House, he said.
Title : Trump vows to send Syrians back if elected president
Description : Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said he would send back Syrian refugees taken in by the US if he is elected presi...
