Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe United States admitted more than 13,000 refugees from Syria in 2016, before Mr. Trump proposed restrictions. Ms. Trump was deeply moved by televised images of children dying from a sarin gas attack this month in Idlib Province in northern Syria. In a September 2015 interview with Bill O’Reilly, then a host at Fox News, Mr. Trump said he believed the United States needed to accept some refugees from Syria. “I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis, with what’s happening, you have to,” Mr. Trump said. At another point he called it an “unbelievable humanitarian problem.”But soon after, Mr. Trump backtracked, and said he did not want to see new refugees coming in.

Source: New York Times April 27, 2017 01:28 UTC