Carson: Syrian refugees want to go home

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Colyer’s visit comes two weeks after Gov. Sam Brownback issued an executive order instructing Kansas agencies not to cooperate with the federal government in resettling Syrian refugees in Kansas.

Journalists were not invited to accompany Carson but in a round of TV interviews on Sunday morning, he said he had been “pleasantly surprised” by how welcoming the refugees in Jordan had been. And there was a pretty uniform answer on that. Why do you want to recreate the will when you have something that’s working?

“I did not detect any great desire for them to come to the United States”, Carson told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Jordan. They want to go back to their lives. They need the world’s help to feed, educate, and care for these refugees until the war ends. “So what more can they be doing?” she questioned. “You look at previous year, there was a $3 billion shortfall”. They want to go back home.

“It’s not that we don’t want to accept refugees, it’s not that we’re going to have a religious test. It’s that you may not be able to fully vet everyone and if you can’t vet someone, you can’t let them in”.

“Bringing 25,000 refugees to the United States does nothing to solve this crisis”, he said. Until it is safe for them to return home, Jordan is a safe place for them to wait.

Speaking from neighboring Jordan where he met Syrians staying in temporarily facilities, Carson said he asked the refugees what the United States should do. He suggested that countries have wasted time debating the merits of admitting refugees instead of discussing how to provide additional support for existing refugee facilities. It’s about these individuals and what’s happening to them and it’s also about the United States of America and the people of our country and the leadership that these people deserve.

A CBS/YouGov poll released Sunday showed Carson slipping below 20 percent in Iowa and to third place behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. On Nov. 20, while on the campaign trail, Carson said refugees posed a security threat. It’s the same situation when I went this summer down to the border of Mexico.

“The reason that the camps are not full is they are not supported by the global community”, the candidate opined.

“That’s a little band aid that makes a few people say, ‘Hey, we’re good guys, ‘ ” he said.

“I would certainly like to see all of the countries in the region focus more on the global radical jihadist movement”. Do you think there were terrorists among those refugees who you talked to?

“I don’t know whether there were or not”, he replied. Carson also said that his visit gave him no new confidence that potential terrorists could be screened out of the refugee population, a process he recently likened to handling “mad dogs”.

BRIANNA: I want to ask you about something were hearing from Tennessee. They hope missions like this will help change that. “I saw pain on the faces of mothers and children”.