"There is a reason the director of national
intelligence said among those refugees are no doubt a significant number
of ISIS terrorists," the Texas senator told a crowd of hundreds in a
Michigan campaign stop, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
"It would be the height of foolishness to bring in tens of thousands of
people including jihadists that are coming here to murder innocent
Americans."
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In fact, National Intelligence Director James
Clapper has not confirmed that the refugee wave includes significant
numbers of terrorists. He has spoken of the risk of terrorists mingling
in, saying last month: "We don't obviously put it past the likes of
ISIL to infiltrate operatives among these refugees." ISIL is an
alternative acronym for the Islamic State group.
Clapper said the U.S. was aggressively screening
the small number of Syrian refugees it has accepted. The Obama
administration said it intends to accept about 10,000 Syrian refugees
and increase the overall number of refugees allowed into the country
from around the world to 85,000 in the next 12 months. That total would
increase to 100,000 by 2017. The U.S. now accepts up to 70,000 refugees
per year.
Michigan's Gov. Rick Snyder, also a Republican, is
talking with federal officials about what the state can do about
accepting more refugees from Syria and building on more than a century
of Arab immigration to the state.
Cruz was campaigning ahead of Michigan's March 8 presidential primary.
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