Donald Trump on Sunday warned that if the United States continues to allow Syrian refugees to resettle in the country, they will carry out a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
During an interview on the National Border Security Council’s “Green Line” radio show, Trump was asked if it will take another attack on the same scale as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for Americans to call for increased border security.
“I do, I actually do. Bad things will happen – a lot of bad things will happen,” Trump responded, according to audio posted by Buzzfeed News. “There will be attacks that you wouldn’t believe. There will be attacks by the people that are right now that are coming into our country, because, I have no doubt in my mind.”
“I mean you look at it, they have cell phones,” he continued. “So they don’t have money, they don’t have anything. They have cell phones. Who pays their monthly charges, right? They have cell phones with the flags, the ISIS flags on them. And then we’re supposed to say, ‘Isn’t this wonderful that we’re taking them in?'”
Earlier in the interview, Trump criticized Hillary Clinton’s call for the U.S. to resettle Syrian refugees in the country.
“She wants the Syrians to pour into the country. We don’t know if they’re Syrians, by the way. We have no idea who they are because much of it is undocumented,” he said. “Wait until you see the problems we’ll have with that — just take a look at Germany, take a look at Europe, what’s going on over there.”
Trump has proposed a temporary ban on Muslims visiting the United States if he is elected president. Last week, he said that proposal was “just a suggestion,” before clarifying that he was not “softening” his stance on banning Muslims from coming to the U.S.
