After visiting a refugee camp in Jordan, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said refugees want to stay in Syria.
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“The thing that I really learned in listening to the refugees themselves is their intense desire is to return to their country and repatriated”.
Asked what the United States can do to support Jordanian efforts, Carson said the USA should lend support Jordanian efforts.
“The Jordanians have done a yeoman’s job in terms of putting up these camps”.
Carson’s latest decision to take some time off the campaign trail and travel to refugee camps in Jordan, shows how wrong the media was to interpret his comments the way that they did. “We can do our part to help this crisis without bringing 10-25,000 refugees to the United States”.
“That’s a little band aid that makes a few people say, ‘Hey, we’re good guys, ‘ ” he said.
As Carson told The Associated Press, “I did not detect any great desire for them to come to the United States. If everybody could focus more attention on them and do everything that we can, including exclude their ability to move money, remove their ability to receive revenues from oil, take away the caliphate that they’ve established, and actually make sure that we eliminate any safe havens for them, I think a lot of the problems would be resolved, quite frankly”.
“And they can not continue that without help from the global community”, he added.
A Syrian woman buys vegetables on the main commercial alley dubbed the “Champs Elysee” after Paris’ famous avenue by the refugees of the Zaatari refugee camp by the refugees of the Zaatari refugee camp, in northwestern Jordan, on September 30, 2015. Some GOP candidates said they fear terrorists could sneak into the US among them. “They understand here that we’re talking about the jihadists, the Islamic terrorists”.
Colyer said that he first talked with Carson about the trip in September but that it was kept quiet for security reasons. Last week, he likened blocking potential terrorists posing as Syrian refugees to handling a rabid dog. “And we should be doing all we can to engage in intelligent, civil discussion about our differences”, said Carson.
“Millions of refugees have now been waiting years for the end of the war to come in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey”, Carson wrote on Facebook.
What do you think about Dr. Ben Carson’s views? “That is ultimately what we need to do, and this president hasn’t led in that regard”. The Syrians and the people here completely understood what I was saying. And it’s very obvious to majority.
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Carson also told NBC that individuals on both sides of the abortion debate should dial down their rhetoric in the wake of a shooting spree at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado that killed three people.
