Ben Carson travels to Jordan to visit Syrian refugees

In the midst of Ben Carson and his wife’s trip to Jordan this weekend, the Republican presidential candidate outlined the sketches of a policy on Syrian refugees, as well as his thoughts on what the U.S.’s path ahead in the region should be. Millions more are displaced within Syria.

“Dr Carson and a small group are in Jordan”, a campaign official said on Friday. We must find a political end to this conflict.

He thanked Jordan for “doing an amazing” job and called on the United States and other nations to provide additional help to the refugees, after his visits to the Azraq and Zaatari camps in Jordan’s northern desert.

Ayauna King-Baker loved Ben Carson’s “Gifted Hands” memoir so much that she made her daughter Shaliya read it. So when Carson showed up in town to sign copies of his new book, King-Baker dragged the giggly 13-year-old along to the bookstore so they could both meet him.

“Bringing 25,000 refugees to the United States does nothing to solve this crisis”, Carson said in the email. “Jordan needs and deserves our logistical help and financial support”. We must keep their hope alive.

Colyer’s visit comes two weeks after Gov. Sam Brownback issued an executive order instructing Kansas agencies not to cooperate with the federal government in resettling Syrian refugees in Kansas.

But Carson suggests that the rest of the world needs to do more to help, explaining, “These courageous people want nothing more than an end to the war in Syria”.

He continued: “Until it is safe for them to return home, Jordan is a safe place for them to wait. They need the world’s help to feed, educate, and care for these refugees until the war ends”.

An aid appeal of $4.5 billion for refugees in host countries in 2015 is only about half funded. Carson’s campaign also limited access, not providing his itinerary and releasing only a short statement after the camp visit. After this month’s terrorist assaults in Paris, Carson warned of potential terrorists being among the many refugees who’ve been flooding Europe’s borders for months.

“He is not flawless”, Carson adviser Armstrong Williams told Bloomberg News recently.

At least one of the Paris attackers is believed to have been a Syrian refugees, though European authorities have yet to confirm such connections. The cash crunch has created increasingly unbearable conditions for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and – to a lesser extent – in economically more robust Turkey.