President Donald Trump said on Friday that Syrian Christians will be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the united states.
"If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians, " Trump said in an excerpt of an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Christian refugees to get priority: Trump says during CBN interview
Pew Research Center said last October 38, 901 Muslim refugees entered the united states in the fiscal year 2016 from all countries - almost the same number of Christian refugees, 37, 521.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday that temporarily halt refugees from some Muslim-majority nations, a White House official said.