Ted Cruz: Muslim refugees from Syria should go to other Islamic countries [VIDEO]

CNN ^ | 11/18/2015 | By Theodore Schleifer

[SeekAndFind]

Charleston, SC (CNN) Ted Cruz may believe that Christian refugees from Syria pose no risk to American security, but he is open to looking beyond religion and actually vetting those emigrants, he said in a new interview.

The rising presidential candidate is aligning himself with the most restrictionist voices in the debate over how to handle the refugee crisis, which is dominating the Republican race after a deadly attack in Paris left more than 100 dead. Cruz has applied a "religious test" to judge which refugees to admit, in the words of the White House, telling reporters across South Carolina this weekend that he would admit all persecuted Christians to the U.S. but no persecuted Muslims.

But in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash on Monday, Cruz conceded that he would support measures to sift through the Christian refugees should ISIS militants try to disguise their identities.

"There's no doubt we would need to vet anyone coming in, but there is no indication that we have Muslims pretending to be Christians in the coming refugee wave," Cruz said before an event at the College of Charleston, concluding his three-day swing across the Palmetto State. "If that develops to be a problem, then our first obligation should be protecting our national security."

Cruz, like other Republican hardliners, has argued that the risk of Islamic militants infiltrating the refugee population is too high for America to accept them with open arms. On the stump across South Carolina, Cruz argued that the percentage of refugees that are young men suggests that ISIS may look to take advantage of any relaxation of immigration laws.

The Texas senator instead thinks that Muslims fleeing the Syrian civil war should be repopulated to other Muslim countries. But the Christian population, he believes, has nowhere else to go,

[Steely Tom]

Why should they go to those hell-holes when Obama will bring them right into nice Republican suburbs?

[cripplecreek]

[roadcat]

What I and millions of people have been saying. Relocate the refugees in arab lands. It doesn’t make sense to send them thousands of miles away to the U.S.A. There is lots of space in northeast Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, Pakistan, etc. And lots of Arab countries are rich and can afford to house them. It would be much easier to build tent cities there, and the logistics of housing and feeding them is easier there. If it’s a problem of money, I’ll donate $10 towards keeping them there.

[combat_boots]

You think the ME countries are as empty as.....deserts....by now.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I guess we’re going to hear a lot of this lately from the treasonists in the media, that the Islamo-Nazi mass murdering psychopaths are comparable to the Cuban refugees and Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. What Cruz should have brought up is how the Islamos in Turkey booed during a moment of silence for the victims in Paris. These bitch ass mofos SUPPORT the mass murder of civilians! Why is that so hard for the treasonists to understand unless they support it as well?

[QT3.14]

Waiting for øClown to tell us why Muslim countries won't take Muslim refugees...3-2-1

[353FMG]

And American muzzies should join them

[353FMG]

And American muzzies should join them

[Shark24]

Let me tell you, it is not a problem of money. The ME states are not stupid. This is a part of the larger plan of exporting Islam. Even if it all stopped this instant, Islam has just made significant gains in transferring their “culture” to Europe and the US. When your game involves patience and hundred year time spans, “so what” if you are stopped for a few years or even decades. There is an evil hand at work here and it’s not even trying to hide it’s tracks anymore.

[Lady Heron]

YES

[JimSEA]

As long as ISIS uses a “religious test on who they murder” so should we exercise a religious test on who we accept as refugees.

[EvilCapitalist]

It makes perfect sense to relocate them to the USA... if you’re trying to build the caliphate.

[samtheman]

It makes perfect sense to relocate them to the USA... if you’re trying to build the caliphate.

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Yes. Any Muslim President would understand that clearly. Which he does.

[CPT Clay]

The Texas senator instead thinks that Muslims fleeing the Syrian civil war should be repopulated to other Muslim countries. But the Christian population, he believes, has nowhere else to go,

Money Quote

[353FMG]

I heartily approve that message. Muzzies and their goats do not belong in America.
That’s why we have an area called, the Middle East. Muzzies should live among muzzies in the M.E. and reasonable people should keep a far distance from them at all times.