Ben Carson commented on the Syrian refugee crisis arguing, why should we “have to do it and they’re [Arab countries] not taking in refugees from their own area.”
Carson, appearing on CNN’s “The Lead” with John Berman Monday, explained, “I believe we should encourage the various countries in that region [to take them in].”
Carson said that the United States “should be willing to perhaps help them financially and with some expertise. But the fact of the matter is, we don’t know who those people are. And the majority of them are young males. And they could easily be people who are being infiltrated by terrorists and recognize that once you bring them in, then you’ve got to bring other members of the family in. So you’re multiplying that number substantially. We, this is not something that we can necessarily afford to do in terms of exposing our population to that kind of risk right now.”
Carson emphasized the need to be able to check the background of refugees who would be allowed to come into America saying, “Unless we improved it very, very substantially to the point where we could virtually guarantee that we were not importing terrorists, it seems to me like an inappropriate thing to do at this stage.”
Dr. Carson continued to level complaints against other countries suggesting, ‘When we have countries over there who are refusing to take in refugees. It doesn’t make any sense to me that we should have to do it and they’re not taking in refugees from their own area. Why should we have to do it?”