Kansas Lt. Gov. joins Ben Carson in visits to Syrian refugee camps

Last week, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson was slammed by many in the media for allegedly comparing Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs”. “They want to go back home, obviously”, Carson told ABC’s “This Week” from Amman, Jordan’s capitol. However in reality his stance on not wanting them to come to the USA does not seem to have changed in the slightest. And that’s not what they want. They want to go back to their lives. And you’re in Jordan right now and have had quite the trip to visit refugees, what have you learned about refugees that you didn’t know before?

“Well, you know, here’s the interesting thing, Chuck”. But you can see there are a lot of individual modules that they have created for their families, they’re in the process of trying to get electricity to all of them, getting pluming to all of them, and they have taken in millions of people.

He met with medical professionals, humanitarian workers and government officials on Saturday, as well talked to Syrians who were forced to flee their country. And there was a pretty uniform answer on that. Until it is safe for them to return home, Jordan is a safe place for them to wait.

“I find when you have first-hand knowledge of things as opposed to second-hand, it makes a much stronger impression”, he was quoted as telling the paper before his departure late on Thursday. Carson planned to tour one of Jordan’s major refugee camps Friday and Saturday, campaign manager Barry Bennett said. They can’t continue that without the help of the global community.

“If it’s a five-year-old orphan or a child, or if it’s a 90-year-old woman who’s coming to this country, if this is an established leader of the Chaldean religion, someone that we know about that you can vet, common sense says, OK you can vet them”, Rubio told the Guardian in an interview last week.

“I’m talking about in terms of the amount of money that it would take to fund the shortfall”, Carson replied.

President Obama has announced plans to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. “The Kurds were able to cut off the supply routes. and that softened the target”, Carson said, referring to the Iraqi city that was recently recaptured from the Islamic State.

“I think we need to work in close conjunction with our Department of Defense, with our Pentagon, with our experts”. Bringing 10000 refugees to America or 25000 doesn’t even begin to solve the problem there already 1.4 million refugees in Jordan and they can handle even more than that to be honest with you.

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.

The trips overseas can serve as a signal to voters that candidates are equipped to become diplomat-in-chief, particularly for state governors with little previous foreign experience, or non-politician candidates such as Carson.