Ben Carson: Refugees want to stay in Syria

Said Carson: “We must end the war and prioritize helping the millions of Syrians who want to stay near their homes”.

“The decisions they’re going to be making in the next few years will impact her more than me, and I want her to understand the importance of voting and getting to know the candidates and the importance of the decisions they make”, said Daniels. “Why wouldn’t they?” Carson said on ABC’s “This Week”.

Last year, Zaatari became Jordan’s fourth-largest community, with more than 80,000 refugees, complete with restaurants, cafes and sellers hawking items including vegetables and used clothes.

Carson toured the Azraq camp in northern Jordan under heavy Jordanian security, with journalists barred. Reporters were not alerted and he didn’t grant any media access according to the Washington Post.

He also suggested that it would be best to absorb Syrian refugees in Middle Eastern host countries, which have given temporary shelter to most of the more than 4 million Syrians who have fled civil war in their country since 2011.

Speaking from Amman, Jordan, after visiting Syrian refugees this weekend with his wife Candy, Carson said that refugees he spoke to want to be repatriated back into their homeland.

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.

“Recognise that in these camps they have schools, they have recreational facilities that are really quite nice. And they are putting in all kinds of things that make life more tolerable”. The two talked about Syria in September, and Carson said he wanted to see the problem firsthand. “But you have to make progress as you go”.

Carson told NBC’s “Meet the Press” he was misunderstood when he likened Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs”, saying he was referring only to jihadis.

BRIANNA: Dr. Ben Carson thanks so much for joining us from Jordan we appreciate it. “You know our country has done a great job in terms of providing support”.

Rather than accept refugees, the West should support refugee camps in Jordan, he said. “And it’s very obvious to majority”. The reception is quite warm.

“I was a little bit surprised with the answer, because it wasn’t what we’re hearing a lot”.

Carson called on the administration to sit down with military experts – especially retired generals – to determine what is needed to destroy the Islamic State group. Some have accused Turkey of not acting more aggressively to assist its allies by shutting down the organization’s supply lines. But I do know that the ISIS terrorists have said that if we bring refugees, that they would infiltrate them.

That task has been made more complicated by the tragedy in Paris, after which more than half of American governors – all Republican bar one Democrat – said they would not allow refugees into their states.