Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that if he’s elected president he would send back Syrian refugees taken in by the US because they may be Islamic State militants in disguise. Last month he told John O’Reilly of Fox News that even though ISIL supports might be among the refugees, he would accept them in the United States.
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Washington and its allies blame Assad for the mayhem in Syria, where four years of bloodshed have killed more than 240,000 people, and fueled a massive outflow of desperate refugees.
This is the latest in a series of conflicting statements Trump has made regarding his position on the Syrian refugee crisis. “This could be one of the great tactical ploys of all time”.
That’s less than a few have urged, but as many, he said, as the USA can handle given post-Sept. Other countries, such as Germany, are accepting far more. A few intelligence officials and Republican lawmakers have expressed similar concerns.
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.
Trump also said after President Barack Obama reduced American troop levels in Iraq, rebels forces “knocked out of everybody”.
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Trump’s favorability was at 27 percent, the lowest of the 10 candidates surveyed, while 61 percent of the respondents said they disapproved of him. His crowd numbered in the thousand. And I’m saying to myself: Why aren’t they fighting to save Syria?
