Ben Carson compares Syrian refugees to ‘rabid dogs’
US Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has compared some of the fleeing Syrian refugees to "rabid dogs" and warned that it would be "foolish" to accept such people into the US.
"If there's a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog," Carson said Thursday during an election campaign stop in Mobile, Alabama.
"And you're probably going to put your children out of the way. That doesn't mean that you hate all dogs," he added.
“We have to have in place screening mechanisms that allow us to determine who the mad dogs are, quite frankly, who are the people who want to come in here and hurt us and want to destroy us. Until we know how to do that — just like it would be foolish to put your child out in the neighborhood knowing that that was going on — it is foolish for us to accept people if we cannot have the appropriate type of screening,” the retired neurosurgeon said.
US President Barack Obama is moving ahead with a plan to accept about 10,000 Syrian refugees fleeing from the country’s 5-year conflict, while the House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday to prevent Syrian refugees from entering the US until they undergo a stricter screening process.
A group of Republican lawmakers and state governors have criticized Obama’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees in the country, following reports that one of the terrorists involved in the Paris attacks was allegedly a Syrian refugee.
ISIL has claimed responsibility for last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris that killed at least 132 people and injured over 350.
The United States has accepted nearly 2,200 Syrian refugees since the conflict began there in March 2011, according to government data -- and that number is expected to grow significantly in the current year.
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