This past week, the Australian government has displayed a generally fairly shoddy attitude towards Syrian refugee children, and when questioned on the subject at a recent town hall event, U.S. Republican hopeful Donald Trump also gave the answer you might expect, given everything else he has said and done over the course of his campaign.
When a man in the audience asked Trump if he could look the children of Syrian refugee families in the face and tell them they’re not allowed to attend school in Connecticut, he responded:
“I can look in their faces and say, ‘You can’t come here’ … We don’t know where their parents come from, they have no documentation whatsoever… I’ve talked to the greatest legal people, spoken to the greatest security people. There’s absolutely no way of saying where these people come from. They may be from Syria, they may be ISIS, they may be ISIS-related.”
In summary, then:
You can watch a video of the highly Trump-y exchange below:
Source: The Hill.
Photo: Getty / Spencer Platt.
