Carson On Refugee Crisis: We Can’t Put US At Risk ‘To Be Politically Correct’

Republican presidential candidate, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, speaks at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Saturday, July 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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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.

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