“Deportation has to be a possibility,” she said.

Ward also blamed lax immigration enforcement, as well as a focus on nation-building abroad, on terrorism attacks within the United States.

“I don’t think we learned our lesson in Iraq,” she said. “We have intervened in Middle Eastern countries to take out very tyrannical leaders, but we have left a vacuum. We saw it in Libya and now we’re seeing it in Syria, and the vacuum has been filled with more and more radical leaders.”

Ward said she would support extra vetting for Muslim people attempting to immigrate to the United States from countries “known for radical Islamic terror.”

“I would like to see us prioritize Christians fleeing from places where they are being persecuted,” she said.

Ward said her second priority, if elected, would be to repeal the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare.