--- title: Syria Airstrikes: Hillary Clinton Slams Trump on Travel Ban description: Hillary Clinton said it was hypocritical to mourn Syrian children while forbidding those those children from entering the U.S. canonical: https://time.com/4731485/hillary-clinton-syria-airstrikes-refugees-travel-ban-donald-trump/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-07T18:53:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:27.423Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton: We Can't Protect Syrian Babies While Banning Refugees og:description: Clinton said the attack on Syria needed to come with a plan to end its civil war og:url: https://time.com/4731485/hillary-clinton-syria-airstrikes-refugees-travel-ban-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9d16599d4e0125d/6988c1ed7cdbac1ed5d57c9f/clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 920 og:image:height: 518 og:image:alt: clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton: We Can't Protect Syrian Babies While Banning Refugees twitter:description: Clinton said the attack on Syria needed to come with a plan to end its civil war twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9d16599d4e0125d/6988c1ed7cdbac1ed5d57c9f/clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton: We Can't Protect Syrian Babies While Banning Refugees ## Video: Hillary Clinton: We Really Should Take Out Assad's Airfields [Watch (HLS stream): Hillary Clinton: We Really Should Take Out Assad's Airfields](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ImdayCom.m3u8) (0:18)  _Published 2017-04-07. Hillary Clinton said: "I really believe that we should've and still should take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them."_  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 7, 2017 6:53 PM UTC   by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 7, 2017 6:53 PM UTC [Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton](http://motto.time.com/4729957/hillary-clinton-misogyny-donald-trump/) weighed in on the United States’ airstrikes in Syria Friday, saying it was hypocritical to lament the loss of innocent Syrian children in chemical attacks while simultaneously forbidding those those children from entering the United States. Clinton criticized President Donald Trump’s attempts to ban Syrian refugees from the U.S. She also emphasized the attacks need to be accompanied by a plan to end [Syria’s civil war, ](http://time.com/4730310/syria-civil-war-us-response/)which the country has been embroiled in since 2011, when she was Secretary of State. “I hope this administration will move forward in a way that is both strategic and consistent with our values,” she said at a luncheon in Texas. “And I also hope that they will recognize that we cannot in one breath speak of protecting Syrian babies and in the next [close America’s doors to them.”](http://time.com/4290250/syria-lebanon-forced-labor-children/) Clinton was referring to President Trump’s executive order [banning Syrian refugees](https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states) from entering the United States for three months. [MORE: This Map Shows Where the Syria Chemical Attack and U.S. Missile Strikes Took Place](http://time.com/4730805/syria-airstrikes-map/?xid=homepage) Clinton had expressed support for bombing Syria Thursday, before Trump announced them. “I really believe that we should have and still should take out his air fields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them,” [she told New York _Times_ Columnist Nick Kristof ](http://time.com/4730416/syria-missile-attack-hillary-clinton-assad/)at the Women in the World conference. 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