SYRIA: Refugees can remain in Jordan

Officials assured that the refugees will be fully screened before they enter Canada. It sits right at the top of the dusty market road that residents refer to deadpan as the “Champs Élysées”. We need to do everything we can to guard against that threat. “We’d be ready to leave within a week”.

In the statement, Carson praised Jordan’s efforts to help the refugees. “But that includes not bringing people in from outside who might be infiltrated with terrorists when you don’t have to”. They want to go back to their families. “In order to stop this flow of refugees the fighting actually needs to stop”.

The system the UNHCR uses to recommend refugees for resettlement is based on need and vulnerability. Colyer visited Syrian refugee camps in Jordan last week with Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson.

Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer accompanies Dr. Ben Carson to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. “Some of those sites have taken the extra step of ensuring they are prepared to accommodate the refugees, but we’ll see if that type of facility is in fact required”, Hoskins said.

OTTAWA-The Liberal government’s long-awaited $100 million contribution to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to help fleeing Syrians is destined for a half-empty worldwide aid bucket.

The UN lists Canada as the fifth-biggest donor to the funding appeal, having contributed $107.7-million – or 2.4 per cent of the target – so far in 2015.

International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said the government will move quickly to disburse the funds that it has already announced, but was noncommittal about whether more might be pledged in the future.

“It’s a very, very hard situation” Colyer said of the crisis facing Syrian refugees. “This is another sign that Canada is on the side of refugees, it is on the side of humanitarian assistance”. “Why do you need to create something else?”

The government, meanwhile, says it will ensure the previous Conservative administration’s controversial cuts to health services for some refugees will be restored.

“If you add up all the requests, it will be much more than 25,000”, Dion said after arriving in Malta for the Commonwealth summit. “The Jordanians have done a spectacular job of opening up their country to try to take in numerous Syrians”.

Mr. Etyemezian said that in addition to the growing child-labour problem, the financial crunch has pushed some families to marry off their daughters as early as possible, seeing marriage as a way of reducing the number of mouths they have to feed. Carson told ABC reporter Martha Raddatz on This Week that the refugees don’t want to come to America – they want to go home. A lot of them hope to return to Syria one day, but some are unable to, and nobody wants to stay in the camps, she noted.

For years, advocates have campaigned to eliminate the loan program altogether. But her tears stop when she’s asked what it is she’ll miss about life in Zaatari.

Most importantly, he wants his nine-year-old boy, Amran – who lost a kidney as a toddler and is susceptible to long bouts of illness – to get better medical care.