The “Really Quite Nice” Refugee Camps Ben Carson Visited In Jordan

So instead of opening doors to the refugees, Carson argued that the United States should increase funding of overseas refugee camps. Resettlement is necessary to give hope to the thousands of fearless Syrians who have resisted not just a brutal Assad regime but also ISIS and other violent rebel groups. Ireland meanwhile has pledged to take in 4000 Syrian refugees, as well as migrants from Eritrea and Iraq over the next two years.

“We’re waiting now for the call that they are on their way, and we’ll go pick them up at the airport”. He did allow that he was impressed with Carson, but added he would be willing to accompany any presidential candidate who wanted gain a better understanding of the Syrian refugee situation.

“Hello friends. We’re here in Jordan today, you can see behind me the refugee camp”, he said.

He said based on his observations, Syrian refugees are “satisfied” with refugee camps because these facilities already have basic amenities that can support their daily life.

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.

When they began swarming into the camp three years ago, largely from the nearby Syrian province of Dara’a, they were hopeful it was just a temporary stop, Etyemezian said.

“There’s nothing that will turn the momentum off more than if people want to help, and they get no answer at the other end of the phone or they don’t know who to phone”, said McCallum.

Mr. Lakash’s wife, Eman, looks far less sure than her husband at the possibility that her family could soon be on the move again.

But a few weeks after they left, there was very heavy shelling and a building nearby was hit, covering him in shrapnel and soot.

The shortfall has hit such basics as the amount of food aid each refugee receives, as well as the number of schools Unicef can run in Zaatari. “But they need a lot more help”. She said she has been “overwhelmed” by expressions of interest from healthcare providers and other Canadians to help refugees. In addition, a recent United Nations Refugee Agency assessment in Jordan found over 520,000 Syrians are living outside the country’s refugee camps with “86 per cent of those in urban and rural areas are now living below the poverty line”.

Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel said the Liberals haven’t provided enough financial details about their plan for her to say whether her party would support waiving the payments for Syrians.

Ben Carson is, of course, wrong when he says Syrian refugees do not need to come to the US because the camps he visited in Jordan during Thanksgiving weekend were ‘really quite nice’.

“We’re in high gear now”, said Lucille Harper of last-minute organizing for the two families of five and one 23-year-old man who will be coming to Antigonish.