Supporters of Republican candidate for President Donald Trump cheer for the candidate before his arrival at a rally at Plymouth State University in Holderness, N.H., on Sunday. New Hampshire will hold the first primary in the nation on Tuesday. Photo by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo

Donald Trump on Monday said he'd be able to look into the face of Syrian refugee children who are hoping to come to the United States to attend school and say "You can't come here." Trump called for the Gulf States in the Middle East to increase efforts to resettle refugees, even with financial support from the United States. Photo by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo

MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Donald Trump on Monday said he'd be able to look into the face of Syrian refugee children who are hoping to come to the United States to attend school and say, "You can't come here."

Trump made the comment during a town hall event in New Hampshire in response to a question from an audience member.


"I'm wondering if you would be able to look at these children in the face and tell them that they are not allowed to go to school here?" asked a man who said he was from Connecticut.

"How long have they been here?" Trump responds.

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"Some of them aren't here yet," the man replies.

"Oh. I can look in their faces and say, 'You can't come here,'" Trump said, receiving scattered applause from the audience.

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Trump called for the Gulf States in the Middle East to increase efforts to resettle refugees with financial support from the United States. He said "safe-zones" should be established in Syria, where refugees can be held until the Syrian civil war is resolved.

But Trump continued his call to prevent the admission of refugees into the United States -- including children -- due to the influential threat posed by the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, ISIL and ISIS.

"We don't know where their parents come from, they have no documentation whatsoever," Trump said. "I've talked to the greatest legal people, spoken to the greatest security people. There's absolutely no way of saying where these people come from. They may be from Syria, they may be ISIS, they may be ISIS related."