Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, confronted President Barack Obama on Wednesday after the Republican presidenti candidate was criticized for his Syrian refugees proposal.

"If you want to insult me, you can do it overseas, you can do it in Turkey, you can do it in foreign countries, but I would encourage you, mister president, come back and insult me to my face," Cruz said on Capitol Hill.

Obama had criticized the Republican Party for trying to stop the United States from allowing Syrian refugees to enter the country in the wake of ongoing brutal civil war.

"When individuals say that we should have a religious test and that only Christians -- proven Christians -- should be admitted, that's offensive and contrary to American values," Obama said during his trip in Manila on Tuesday. "I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that's been coming out of here during the course of this debate."

The Syrian refugees' topic hit a new peak following the Paris terror attacks last Friday, which killed 129 people and injuring 352.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, another GOP presidential hopeful, also confronted the president on his comments.

"If the president honestly believes that ISIS is concerned about what we think about them and that they are driven by that than the president is more delusional than I ever imagined when it comes to dealing with this crisis," Huckabee said on MSNBC Wednesday. "It's just astonishing the president would make this all about himself not about the safety and security of the American people."

Meanwhile, as hundreds of thousands of refugees continue to flee Syria, neighboring countries are more afraid of letting people in because one of the attackers from Friday may have originally entered France as a Syrian "refugee."

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