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I am extremely concerned that Syrian and ISIS recruiters can use the Internet at lightning speeds to recruit followers in the United States with thousands of followers in the United States and then activate them to do whatever they want to do.

At some point, there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we've never seen before.

I can reveal today that the U.S. government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in Syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the U.S. refugee program.

There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.

We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.

Where there is terrorist activity - Syria or Iraq - we will temporarily suspend immigration until we can establish a vetting system in which we can identify who people are who are coming in.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.

If Syria wants to be part of the international community, there are some conditions that they have to meet. And the first one is to stop embracing the terrorism.