Trump Bellows He'll Send Back Syrian Refugees

[Content Note: Xenophobia; racism; othering.]

Below, a clip from Fox News featuring footage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shouting about how he will refuse safe haven to Syrian refugees if elected:

Fox News Anchor Greta Van Susteren: —making some big news in New Hampshire just moments ago, the current GOP presidential front runner saying if he were elected, he would send home the Syrian refugees the White House is allowing to come to the United States.

Donald Trump, in a video clip of a campaign speech: I'm putting the people on notice that are coming here from Syrian [sic] as part of this mass migration that, if I win, if I win, they're going back. They're going back! I'm telling you! They're going back. [cheers and applause]

Young white male Fox News contributor whose name I don't know: Well, I think it fits in with his anti-immigration rhetoric, but I—

[clip then repeats]
This is the fucking nightmare to which Donald Trump casually suggests he will be sending refugees back, to cheers and applause from his despicable supporters.

Watching this man shout in a voice which conveys he believes himself to be some sort of hero that he will send people back to a home they are forced to leave because their lives are at stake is almost more than I can bear. The unfathomable cruelty. The vile indifference to their plight. The implicit demonization.

This is intolerable. He is intolerable. He is dangerous.

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