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WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would send all the Syrian refugees the United States accepts back to Syria if he is elected, he said on Wednesday at an event in Keene, New Hampshire.
Trump also said after President Barack Obama reduced American troop levels in Iraq, rebels forces “knocked the shit out of everybody.” He reminded his audience that he opposed the war in Iraq when it began.
The billionaire, who is the current frontrunner in the Republican race for the White House, told a crowd of supporters: “If I win, they’re going back.”
It marks a reversal in policy – earlier this month he told Fox News the US should take in more refugees.
A refugee crisis has gripped parts of Europe and the U.S. has pledged to take 10,000 refugees from Syria next year.
Half a million people have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe in 2015, with the largest number from Syria, where 250,000 people have been killed in a civil war.
“I hear we want to take in 200,000 Syrians,”Trump said. “And they could be – listen, they could be ISIS.”
Describing them as a “200,000-man army,” he later added: “I’m 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’re going back.”
–Reuters, TAAN
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