Ben Carson’s Dispatches From Jordan: Syrian Refugees Love It Here

Gov. Dr. Jeff Colyer accompanied Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, as he visited Syrian refugee camps over the past few days. But so far as the United States is concerned, that means “logistical help and financial support” – to keep Syrians over there, in countries like Jordan and Turkey and Lebanon, not resettling them in North America.

“Hello friends. We’re here in Jordan today, you can see behind me the refugee camp”, he said. Ask them what do you need in order to accomplish this? Why do you want to recreate the will when you have something that’s working? Recognize that in these camps they have schools, they have recreational facilities that are really quite nice. “And that was they can support the efforts of the Jordanians”, Carson said in an interview from Amman, Jordan.

Carson told CBS’s “Face the Nation” the Syrians he encountered this weekend in his visit to the Azraq refugee camp in northern Syria do not want to go to Europe or the United States.

“Dr Carson and a small group are in Jordan”, a campaign official said on Friday. After the Azraq visit, Carson said he didnt learn anything that gives him confidence in authorities ability to screen potential terrorists.

On Nov. 20, Carson said at a campaign event in Alabama that allowing Syrian refugees into the United States would endanger Americans.

“I’m acknowledging that I like to know what I’m talking about”, Carson said.

The outsider candidate, who surged to the top of the polls after a late summer breakthrough, recently drew heat for likening Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs” while warning that the Islamic State might use the crisis to infiltrate the US.

“All they need is adequate funding”.

More than four million Syrians have fled the civil war, with more than 600,000 of them in Jordan, the United Nations refugee agency estimates.

Carson and other Republican presidential candidates have criticized President Barack Obama’s plan to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, citing the risk that militants could slip through.

The retired neurosurgeon has repeatedly struggled to discuss global affairs as they become a greater focus in the 2016 presidential contest.

Debate over Syrians fleeing their war-torn country erupted after a series of attacks in Paris earlier this month that raised security concerns across the West.Carson and his GOP rivals expressed concern that extremists may sneak into the USA among them.

The idyllic Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, which at one point housed 130,000 Syrians. “It’s only the news media in our country that thinks that you’re calling Syrians dogs”.

“What we’ve discovered that works is, you know, for instance, when we took Sinjar back”.