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Trump Campaign Manager: President Trump Would Admit Zero Syrian Refugees
BuzzFeed News ^ | September 22, 2015 | Ilan Ben-Meir, News reporter

Posted on 09/22/2015 7:34:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

“It is time — and Mr. Trump has said this, time and time again — to put Americans first.”

Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Tuesday that the United States “should take in zero” Syrian refugees.

“This is very simple, the bottom line is we should take in zero,” Lewandowski said when asked by radio host John Fredericks what a President Trump would do about the refugee crisis.

“And the Untied States, to be clear, has a process for bringing refugees into the country, and an individual must qualify as a refugee to begin that process, is how it works. Individuals caught in a civil war do not necessarily qualify as refugees,” Lewandowski continued

“If Mr. Trump were the president of the United States we would not be bringing refugees into the country under this criteria,” Lewandowski said.

In past interviews, Trump has not completely ruled out taking in refugees from Syria.

On September 8th, Trump told Bill O’Reilly: “I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis, you have to” accept some refugees.

On September 15th, Trump told Morning Joe that “the answer is possibly yes” to accepting refugees, even though “we have so many problems of our own.”

“There’s only so much we can do — we have to fix our own country,” he explained. “Now, Europe is handling it, Germany has been very generous so far, which is very surprising to me, to be honest with you.”

“But it’s a huge problem, and we should help as much as possible, but we do have to fix our own country,” Trump concluded.

On Tuesday, Lewandowski took this line of argument a step further, arguing that “it is time — and Mr. Trump has said this, time and time again — to put Americans first.”

“While I understand our position in the global economy, and how important the United States is in world public affairs, it is time to look at the people who are in our country first who are struggling — the middle class, the bottom class of people who can’t survive — and give them opportunities,” said Lewandowski. “And this is exactly what the issue is, when it comes to not just bringing in refugees, but illegal immigrants.

“It is time to build a wall, it is time to make sure our borders are secure, it is time to make sure that the people who are at the lowest economic status in this country, their jobs are not being taken away from illegal immigrants who are coming to this country illegally,” he continued. “Why don’t we let those people — give them the opportunity to do the jobs, give them the opportunity to have a leg up, give them the opportunity to make their lives better, before we worry about the people in other parts of the world who aren’t U.S. citizens to begin with?”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: islam; regugees; syria; trump
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Hear, hear!
1 posted on 09/22/2015 7:34:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump gets it right again.

Take that, Trump-bashers.


2 posted on 09/22/2015 7:35:21 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Should be good for yet another bump up in the polls.


3 posted on 09/22/2015 7:35:24 PM PDT by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he gets elected, will he run their terrorist asses off?


4 posted on 09/22/2015 7:36:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't you wish the government would treat us the way it treats illegal alien "refugee" invaders?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Absolutely agree with Trump.


5 posted on 09/22/2015 7:38:14 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Recall Gov. Nikki Haley, aka Nimrata Randhawa)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

so his thinking on Septermber 8 and Septermber 15 th has already...evolved this dramatically?


6 posted on 09/22/2015 7:38:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

[to put Americans first]

That’s weird. We haven’t had that in an American President for a long, long time.

Seems like that’s the absolute main job OF the American President.

But, I wax nostalgic.


7 posted on 09/22/2015 7:39:43 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Arab Christians, Armenians, Yazidi, Kurds and Assyrian Christians would be okay with me.


8 posted on 09/22/2015 7:39:49 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: diverteach

“Should be good for yet another bump up in the polls.”

...and also result in another RINO candidate withdrawing.


9 posted on 09/22/2015 7:39:53 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
As Our Leader Always Says
GO TRUMP GO!
10 posted on 09/22/2015 7:40:13 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: MeshugeMikey

Better than telling us he really really really believes one thing, then votes the opposite within days.

I’ll take Trump’s mode of operation.


11 posted on 09/22/2015 7:40:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

People who tell others what they want to hear are perpetually evolving.


12 posted on 09/22/2015 7:41:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’ve often maintained: “You become what you love, or you become what you hate”. Obama hated colonialism, so he is now colonizing America.


13 posted on 09/22/2015 7:41:45 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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To: Jane Austen

did you absolutely agree with his disimilar opinions on the 7th and 15th of this month..neither of which came close to his current position?


14 posted on 09/22/2015 7:41:49 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
0.0


15 posted on 09/22/2015 7:43:01 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bump!


16 posted on 09/22/2015 7:43:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
If he gets elected, will he run their terrorist asses off?

I think it's a safe bet he wouldn't be paying, arming and kissing their butts like Lord Foul!

17 posted on 09/22/2015 7:43:32 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: DoughtyOne

In past interviews, Trump has not completely ruled out taking in refugees from Syria.

On September 8th, Trump told Bill O’Reilly: “I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis, you have to” accept some refugees.

NOW he is ruling ou..... the syrian refugees

if that isnt a 180 what is??

I faile to see how anyone could MISS the concepts herein


18 posted on 09/22/2015 7:43:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

holy cow!


19 posted on 09/22/2015 7:44:55 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: timestax

I think he just nabbed the nomination.


20 posted on 09/22/2015 7:45:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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