“All Syrian refugees are going back,” says Donald Trump

Not only does he want to deport undocumented migrants from the United States, Republican presidential contender Donald Trump now says he will send back all Syrian refugees to their country if he is elected to office next year.

This could be one of the great tactical ploys of all time”

“I’m putting people on notice that if they are coming here from Syria as part of this mass migration, that if I win, they're going back!” Trump said Wednesday during a campaign rally in Keene, New Hampshire.

“They could be ISIS [Islamic State terrorists],” he said. “This could be one of the great tactical ploys of all time. A 200,000-man army maybe, or if you said 50,000 or 80,000 or 100,000, we got problems and that could be possible. I don’t know that it is, but it could be possible, so they’re going back – they’re going back.”

In June, the real estate billionaire thrust himself into controversy by pledging to force Mexico to build a border wall to keep migrants – many of whom he labeled as “drug traffickers” and “rapists” – from crossing the US border illegally.

In August, he said that he plans on sending all undocumented migrants in the United States back to their native countries.

On September 10, US President Barack Obama ordered the government to begin preparing to take in around 10,000 Syrian refugees, beginning on Thursday, when the new fiscal year begins.

It is estimated that some 500,000 refugees have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe fleeing the war in Syria and other armed conflicts in the Middle East.