- ABC News
- November 17, 2015
The Note: Candidates Confront The Refugee Question
NOTABLES --TRUMP PROMISES TO DEPORT SYRIAN MIGRANTS: Donald Trump said he would deport all Syrian refugees who settle in the U.S. if elected president. "Anybody that's brought into this country from the migration is going to be out," Trump said at a rally in Knoxville, Tenn., last night. "We're not gonna do it. We're gonna have a country again, we're gonna have borders, we're gonna have a country again, right now we don't have a country." Rather than accept Syrian refugees in the U.S., which Trump argues is a "Trojan Horse" that could allow entry for terrorists into the country, he advocates for building a "safe zone" inside Syria, where he said refugees could wait out the conflict. According to ABC's JORDYN PHELPS, more than 25 governors have vowed to reject Syrian refugees from settling in their states in response to the Paris attacks. http://abcn.ws/1l1b0LW --WHAT THE CANDIDATES SAY THE US SHOULD DO ABOUT ISIS: In the days since the massacre overseas, the presidential hopefuls...