Donald Trump said as president, he would tell Syrian refugee children to their faces they are not allowed to come to American schools.
“We don’t know where their parents come from, they have no documentation whatsoever,” the Republican presidential hopeful said Monday during a town hall in New Hampshire, a day before the primary.
“I’ve talked to the greatest legal people, spoken to the greatest security people,” he added. “There’s absolutely no way of saying where these people come from. They may be from Syria, they may be ISIS, they may be ISIS-related.”
A man who said he was from Connecticut asked Trump whether he would be able to “look at these children” of Syrian families who have been relocated into in American communities and want their children to go to school there, and tell them they cannot go.
“I can look in their faces and say, ‘You can’t come here,'” Trump replied to applause.
Also in the town hall, Trump called for Gulf States in the Middle East to help with refugee resettlement.
The new comments come a few months after Trump controversially called for barring all Muslims from entering the United States until “our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
Trump has also called for surveillance of mosques, and has said he was open to establishing a database for all Muslims living in the United States.
