How IKEA Is Helping Syrian Refugees

“The situation for other refugees is just as dramatic”, she said.

Carson, whose foreign policy credentials have been criticized from within his campaign, used the trip as an opportunity to beef up his credibility in the matter. “I think having a lot of different ideas from Republicans and Democrats – We’ve got to deal with this problem”, Colyer said.

“I did not detect any great desire for them to come to the United States”, he told reporters.

Colyer accompanied fellow doctor and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson to a refugee camp at the border with Jordan over the Thanksgiving weekend.

According to Carson, the refugees he spoke with want the U.S.to provide more monetary support. He told of his experience with the Syrian refugees there.

A federal solicitation document posted Monday names December 10 as the date when the first flights are planned to carry refugees from camps in Jordan and Turkey to Canadian soil.

Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer accompanies Dr. Ben Carson to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. Shutting down the resettlement of Syrian refugees to the USA, the ultimate result of the SAFE Act, will make the refugee crisis worse and more unsafe. “But they are satisfied to be in the refugee camps if the refugee camps are adequately funded”.

“The individuals that we met are not a direct security threat, as far as I can tell”, Colyer said. “The real issue is: How do we help them where they are?” And they’ve made that clear.

He said he believes “the United States has a responsibility, as the pentacle nation in the world, when you see something that’s about to create havoc, to do something about it and not to sit there and leave the responsibility for somebody else”.

“The point is this”, he said. “Then they have communal areas for sports and entertainment, church, whatever else you want to do there”. And bringing 10,000 people out of 4 million is less than 1 percent. Last week the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church published an open letter for Brownback calling on the governor not to “let fear dictate our actions when considering our approach to welcoming Syrian refugees”.

Yahoo News reports that through the Ikea Foundation’s Better Shelter programme, millions of refugees worldwide are now living in small homes – the majority are 57 square feet – as opposed to tents, which are cheaper but don’t last almost as long.

Academics in Jordan found ample evidence of emotional suffering when they interviewed Syrian migrants there. So they’re making tremendous sacrifices. Many dropped out to take menial jobs – such as construction, or picking tomatoes and olives at nearby farms – to help their cash-strapped parents.