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All the other Republican presidential candidates have either stated that refugees from Syria should not be admitted into the U.S. at all, or that the process should be suspended until proper vetting and security safeguards can be implemented.

Even other Establishment candidates who were previously in favor of accepting the refugees, such as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, have pulled about-faces since the terrorist attacks Friday in Paris and now oppose their admission.

Obama and the three candidates for the 2016 Democratic nomination have maintained their support for resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S.

More than half of the nation’s governors, including some Democrats, have said they do not want Syrian refugees settled in their states and are urging the Obama administration to hit the pause button on its proposed plan to admit the refugees.

Bush qualified his position by saying that proper safeguards should be in place, but emphasized that the U.S. should by no means close its doors to refugees.

“If there’s any kind of concern, we shouldn’t allow people in,” he said. “But I don’t think we should eliminate our support for refugees. It’s been a noble tradition in our country for many years.”

The comments come on top of remarks he made on Sunday in which he said that the U.S. should focus on helping Christian refugees who are being persecuted and killed in the Middle East.

Obama blasted the comments in his speech Monday at the G-20 summit in Turkey, saying that imposing a religious test when deciding which refugees to admit was not consistent with American values.