Ben Carson Prefers Syrian Refugee Camps to America – for Syrian Refugees

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s campaign released images of what he did on his visits to Syrian refugee camps in Jordan.

“I had an opportunity to talk to numerous Syrian refugees and ask them, ‘What is your supreme desire?’ And it was pretty uniform: They want to go back home”, Carson said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday.

Carson said that the Jordanians have done a “yeoman’s job” in setting up their refugee camps and repeated his outlook that the US taking in 10,000-25,000 refugees would ultimately not help these people fleeing conflict.

“In terms of money, when I looked at the refugee camps in Jordan, there’s about a three billion [dollar] shortfall annually”. “That’s how much money we spent past year on Halloween candy”.

“If you do that, you solve that problem without exposing the American people to a population that could be infiltrated with terrorists who want to destroy us”, he said.

The trip comes as Carson has faced harsh criticism about his lack of foreign policy expertise – as well as his strong stance against admitting Muslim refugees, some of whom he described as “mad dogs”, into the United States. They want to be repatriated in their own country.

The retired neurosurgeon has repeatedly struggled to discuss worldwide affairs as they become a greater focus in the 2016 presidential contest. “But as you may or may not know, the facilities are not conducive to having any refugees stay there-they’re trying to get out of there”. One of the top lawmakers there actually suggested using the National Guard to round up the refugees who are already settled in the USA and send them back. “They understand here that we’re talking about the jihadists, the Islamic terrorists”.

In the past day, Ben Carson has met with Syrian refugees in Jordan.

“I think we ought to do what we can to provide support for the refugees”, Bush said during an interview with CBS on Sunday.

“For instance if there’s a rabid dog running around the neighborhood, probably not going to assume something good about that dog and you’re going to want to put your children away”, Carson said in response to an ABC News question about helping refugees.

In addition, it’s worth looking at the situation at the Azraq camp, which is the newer and significantly more advanced of the two camps that Carson toured.

“I always oppose doing unnecessary things, particularly risky and costly unnecessary things”, he said. “And it’s very obvious to majority”, Carson said.

“I think we need to work in close conjunction with our Department of Defense, with our Pentagon, with our experts”. Moore worked with them on trying to help Middle East Christians, first focusing on trying to get evangelicals to support a solution in Iraq and Syria, then shifting to resettling people out of the region.