Carson visiting Syrian refugees in Jordan

Carson toured the Azraq camp in northern Jordan under heavy Jordanian security, with journalists barred. Carson’s campaign also limited access, not providing his itinerary.

Carson is scheduled to return to the United States late Saturday.

“I always oppose doing unnecessary things, particularly unsafe and costly unnecessary things”, he said. However, the government and the U.S. Embassy in Amman were informed of the trip this week, the individuals familiar with the trip said.

“All they need is adequate funding”.

“I don’t think there were any black people in the country that weren’t thrilled that that happened – including me”, Carson told The Associated Press in a recent interview when asked about Obama’s first victory. “They were a lot happier”. “Syrians want to go home and live in peace”.

Following Carson’s trip, he shouldn’t expect less criticism or for scrutiny to cease, but rather more questions will emerge and there would be general consensus on whether Carson’s views on national security and foreign policy have changed or evolved. “Jordan needs and deserves our logistical help and financial support”. After the terrorist attacks in Paris, however – carried out by citizens of France, not refugees from Syria – the U.S. Congress voted to block the resettlement of refugees more than half the governors in the U.S. said they would refuse to allow Syrians to be resettled within their states. He said this month in a Washington Post article about the religious politics of refugees that Christians should be a higher priority for Americans than Muslims because there are no nearby countries in the Middle East with large Christian populations where they can easily resettle.

Carson said of Syrian refugees: “If there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog”.

Jordan is home to around 1.4 million refugees from Syria. Most initially settled in neighboring countries, but conditions there have become increasingly hard.

“If we’re going to be bringing 200,000 people over here from that region – if I were one of the leaders of the global jihadist movement and I didn’t infiltrate that group of people with my people, that would be nearly malpractice”.

Overwhelmed host countries, particularly Lebanon and Jordan, have balked at the idea of longer-term integration of refugees. The country is launching an appeal to the global community for $8.13 billion to continue hosting Syrians for the next three years. Should the U.S.be doing more to aid the Syrian refugees? In 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees moved on to Europe in hopes of a better life.