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Syrian Muslim refugees to America is, is, is nothing less than lunacy. If you look at the early
waves of refugees that have flooded in, into Europe, one estimate was that seventy seven percent
of those refugees were young men, and thats a very odd demographic for a refugee wave. The
Director of National Intelligence here in America has said that of those refugees in Europe, it is
clear that a significant number of them may well be ISIS terrorists. It makes no sense whatsoever
for us to be bringing in refugees who our intelligence cannot determine if theyre terrorists here
to kill us or not. Those who are fleeing persecution should be resettled in the middle east in
majority Muslim countries. Now on the other hand, Christians who are being targeted for
genocide, for persecution, Christians who are being beheaded or crucified, we should be
providing a safe haven to them.
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We need a commander in chief who says we will defeat radical Islamic terrorism and let me tell
you what that would look like. That would look like number one using overwhelming military
power particularly air power. You know in the first Persian Gulf War we had roughly eleven
hundred air attacks a day. Obama right now is doing fifteen to thirty attacks a day, its pinprick,
its photo-op foreign policy. Number two, we should be arming the Kurds, the Kurds are on the
ground fighting ISIS, they are fierce allies of ours, they are out-armed and yet they are our boots
on the ground and yet Obama for political reasonshe doesnt wanna upset Baghdadso he
wont arm the Kurds. In a Cruz administration we would be using overwhelming air power and
the Kurds as our boots on the ground. And it would be clear to any militant on the face of the
earth: if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad against America, youre signing your death
warrant.

Ted Cruz / November 2015

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