Ben Carson in Jordan: Syrian Refugees Want To Go Back Home

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.

Speaking on ABC’s “This Week”, CBS’s “Face The Nation” and CNN’s “State of the Union”, Carson discussed his trip to Jordan, where he met with Syrian refugees at a camp near the border. “They want to go back home, obviously”, Carson told ABC’s “This Week” from Amman, Jordan’s capitol.

“That’s not what we want to do”.

“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. “They want to go back home”. Perhaps that was what sparked his desire to take a surprise trip to Jordan in order to meet some of the Syrian refugees.

“Today I listened to the life struggles of many Syrians who were forced to flee their own homes”, Carson said in the statement. And there was a pretty uniform answer on that. They want jobs. Do you welcome them into America now, has anything changed your mind? “They can not continue in that without assist from the worldwide community”.

In his NBC interview, Carson said Jordanian camps need about $3 billion more a year, a number tantamount to what the USA spends on “Halloween candy”. The two talked about Syria in September, and Carson said he wanted to see the problem firsthand.

The Florida senator Marco Rubio initially responded to the attacks in Paris by saying it would not be possible to accept more Syrian refugees, but has since signaled he is open to certain categories of people. I believe that the right policy is to support the refugee program that is in place, that works extremely well but does not have aid adequate funding. “That’s how we solve problems”. “If you can eliminate the possibility of terrorists infiltrating them and wanting to destroy us, you have a different argument”.

While Carson shares those governors’ opposition to resettling Syrians in the US, his comments on Saturday were in stark contrast to those of his fellow Republicans running for the party’s presidential nomination, with billionaire Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz both suggesting refugees are in fact sleeper-cell agents for the Islamic State. 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. ” Some are giving up hope that they will ever be able to return to the country”. You’re thinking, how do I protect my children?

“We need a leader that brings us together, not a leader that’s separating us”, he said. Okay, thanks very much, Dr. Carson.