Carson: Refugees want to return to Syria

I had an opportunity to talk to numerous Syrian refugees and ask them what is your supreme desire?

US President Barack Obama has said his administration will allow 10,000 Syrian refugees to resettle in America over the next year.

“Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd asked Carson if he regrets using an analogy of a rabid dog when talking about keeping Syrians out of the country for fear terrorists could be among them. Last week, he likened blocking potential terrorists posing as Syrian refugees to handling “mad dogs”.

The New York Times reported that the retired neurosurgeon would visit a camp in the northern Jordanian town of Azraq and tour a clinic and hospital. They can’t continue that without the help of the worldwide community.

“I said what kinds of things can a nation like the United States do to help?”

In an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar that’s set to air in the noon hour of Sunday’s “State of the Union”, Carson compared the stop in Jordan to a trip he took to the U.S.-Mexico border to learn about immigration. “Let’s maximize that and then let’s think about if we need recreate other wheels”.

“Syrians have a reputation as very hard working, determined people, which should only enhance the overall economic health of the neighboring Arab countries that accept and integrate them into the general population”, he was quoted as saying.

“Hello friends. We’re here in Jordan today, you can see behind me the refugee camp”, he said. And I actually talked to the people, not only to the Jordanians who are incredibly generous in terms of their support of refugees, and that’s been the case for decades now, but also to the Syrian refugees themselves to find out what they think about the whole situation, whether their wants and desires.

But Carson, one of the leaders in the polls in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, offered few details on how he would work to defeat Islamic State militants and stabilize Syria to enable the refugees’ return. 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.

The Republican presidential candidate was speaking from Amman, Jordan, where he visited two refugee camps in an effort to better understand the crisis while attempting to beef up a foreign policy résumé his own advisers recently described as weak.

Jordan is home to around 1.4 million refugees from Syria.

“I leave Jordan knowing we need to get serious about ending the war in Syria”. It also says the Syrians are subjected to greater scrutiny than any other class of traveler.

“The United States must do more”.