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.
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At some point, there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we've never seen before.
There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.
I am very supportive of Donald Trump's call to temporarily suspend immigration from countries where terrorists influence and impact represents a threat to the United States.
We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.
The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
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.
We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.
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.
I argued for a wartime moratorium on new visas and new immigrants because of the substantial danger of ISIS terrorists infiltrating our system.
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