“That’s not what we want to do”.
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“I actually have been to the refugee camps”, Raddatz revealed. Ask them what do you need in order to accomplish this? Why do you want to recreate the will when you have something that’s working?
“But they are satisfied to be in the refugee camps if the refugee camps are adequately funded. And we should be doing all we can to engage in intelligent, civil discussion about our differences”, said Carson. More importantly, this gave Dr. Carson the opportunity to meet Syrians first-hand and listen to their stories. We must find a political end to this conflict.
On “Face the Nation”, Carson said Jordan should accept more refugees, as should other neighboring Arab countries since that would not only be less of a cultural change for them, but would also have them closer to Syria when they are able to eventually return home. Most were given temporary shelter in neighbouring countries, but overwhelmed hosts nations balk at long-term integration.
Carson then reaffirmed his lack of confidence in the U.S.’s ability to screen out potential terrorists before letting us in on an apparently very well-kept secret of Jordan’s refugee camps: They’re living like kings.
Ben Carson says the Syrian refugees he talked in refugee camps in Jordan “want to be in Syria, they want to be repatriated in their own country and they are looking for a mechanism to get there”. “Why wouldn’t they?” Carson said on ABC’s “This Week”.
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. “They can not continue that without help from the worldwide community”.
This trip comes as Carson struggles to command foreign policy, as it becomes a greater focus in the 2016 contest. “They were a lot happier”.
Last week Mr Carson had reportedly told a campaign event in Mobile, Alabama, that allowing Syrian refugees into the USA could pose a risk to Americans, and had said: “If there is a rabid dog running around your neighbourhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog”.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and other war-torn countries have poured into Europe since January, fleeing the carnage in their homelands, the vast majority from Syria.
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According to figures compiled by the Jordanian government, more than 1.3 million Syrians – 20 percent of the country’s population – have taken refuge in Jordan. “Jordan needs and deserves our help”, the statement read. “If you can eliminate the possibility of terrorists infiltrating them and wanting to destroy us, you have a different argument”.
