This photo taken on April 24, 2017 shows Ivanka Trump listening while her father US President Donald Trump speaks via video with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
WASHINGTON — First Daughter Ivanka Trump has contradicted her father, the US president, by insisting that allowing Syrian refugees to immigrate to the United States “has to be part of the discussion” over ending Syria’s civil war.
“I think there is a global humanitarian crisis that’s happening, and we have to come together, and we have to solve it,” she told NBC News in an interview aired Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump has signed executive orders banning Syrian refugees from entering US territory, saying that they present a national security threat. Federal courts have ruled against the ban, placing it indefinitely on hold.
Opening America’s borders to the refugees “has to be part of the discussion, but that’s not going to be enough in and of itself.”
Refugee children arrive at the Turkish border crossing gate as Syrians fleeing the embattled city of Aleppo wait on February 6, 2016 in Bab al-Salama, near the city of Azaz, northern Syria. (AFP/BULENT KILIC)
Trump has suggested creating “safe zones” for refugees and displaced people in the Middle Eastern country, and launched a cruise missile strike against President Bashar Assad’s military in response to an apparent chemical weapons attack.
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The Syrian war has triggered the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, with nearly half a million people killed and millions more displaced. More than five million people — about a quarter of the population — have fled the country.
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