Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said Sunday that the United States should be “extra cautious” when considering allowing refugees to the country.
President Obama reportedly told advisers last week that he would like to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees to the US in the approaching budget year.
ABC “This Week” host Martha Raddatz asked Carson Sunday how he would handle the refugee crisis.
“I would recognize that bringing in people from the Middle East right now carries extra danger. And we have to be extra cautious. You know, the — the typical mechanisms that we use for screening people, perhaps, have to be enhanced. And I say — that’s why I say we have to have an excellent process,” Carson said.
Carson, continued, and questioned the effectiveness of the process, mentioning the Tsarnaev brothers, who were behind the bombing at the Boston Marathon in 2013.
“I know we have a process, but how effective is it?” Carson said. “How does it, you know, let people like the Tsarnaev brothers in here?”
“You know, we need to tighten it up and be very careful, because we cannot put our people at risk because we’re trying to be politically correct,” Carson said on the program.
Why isn’t doing something for good reasons, because we care, because we have compassion…or for practical reasons, because the world is watching, not something that appeals to such a self professed God fearing man?
In this case, Carson’s compassion flew out the window the day he decided to sell his soul to run for office as a Republican.
Yes, one should never do anything decent and kind for anyone, for fear of being ‘politically correct’.
Not to mention that the Middle East is fucked up in large part because of US warmongering in the neighborhood. Mostly initiated by Republicans, who never want to fix any problem that they themselves have created.
What he’s offering are not solutions, just criticisms of what’s in place, and that’s easy to do. Trump has mastered it. Carson probably didn’t think much about foreign affairs until he announced he’d run and now he’s winging it. Mention the Tsarnaev brothers and you get their attention.
OK… I’ll bite… did you refuse to treat Middle Eastern children out of fear you might be treating a future terrorist?