Fact check: Ben Carson, Scott Walker widen contribution on Syrian refugees

Two Republican presidential possibilities who conflict President Obama’s devise to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees stretched a contribution to support their routine position:

• Ben Carson pronounced that a infancy of Syrian refugees are “young males.” But a United Nations’ sum uncover women outnumber men, and children 11 years aged and younger, masculine and female, criticism for 38.5% of all refugees.

• Scott Walker pronounced that “many” of a refugees who have been certified to a United States this mercantile year came from Syria. Actually, Syrians paint only 2.3% of a 57,350 sum tellurian refugees supposed by a U.S. as of Aug. 31.

‘Majority’ of Syrian Refugees Are ‘Young Males’?

Carson, a late neurosurgeon, done a explain during an talk on CNN’s The Lead with John Berman. Carson pronounced he didn’t consider a United States should be peaceful to take in some-more Syrian refugees, arguing that a risk of some refugees indeed being terrorists was too great.

Carson, Sept. 14:

So you’re augmenting that series substantially. We need — this is not something that we can indispensably means to do in terms of exposing a race to that kind of risk right now.

Carson is entitled to his opinion about whether the United States should concede some-more Syrian refugees to enter a country, and we take no position on that. But his criticism that “the infancy of them are immature males” is contradicted by a best information accessible on a Syrian refugees’ demographics.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees — that refers refugees for resettlement in other countries — says there are some-more than 4 million purebred Syrian refugees

UNHCR’s information uncover that 50.5% of refugees are women. Females age 18 to 59 make adult 23.9% of a refugees, while males in that age organisation make adult 21.8%.

Even younger males — age 12 to 17 — paint 6.5% of refugees, while females that age are 6.1%. The infancy of refugees — 51.1% — are underneath age 17, including 38.5% who are younger than 12 years old. These numbers were as of Sept. 6.

We have seen a different set of UNHCR numbers

In a CNN interview, Carson also pragmatic that a U.S. would take in most aloft numbers of Syrian refugees than a 10,000 a Obama administration has pronounced a nation would accept in mercantile 2016. Carson said, “I will tell we that if we was ISIS, we were a tellurian jihadist and we knew a United States was about to take in 10,000 or 65,000 or 100,000 people from my region, we would penetrate them with my people.”

As we wrote in an Ask FactCheck

On Sept. 10White House orator Josh Earnest

One final thing: Carson also exaggerates when he says that once a U.S. accepts 10,000 Syrian refugees “then we have got to move other members of a family in. So you’re augmenting that series substantially.”

The U.S. interloper module allows certain family members of refugees to request for interloper status, though that “does not pledge acceptance,” as a State Department explains on a websiteFeb. 18 report

As for Carson’s explain that Syrian family members would boost a altogether series of Syrian refugees “substantially,” we can't contend either that would happen. But we note that a boss any year places a extent on a series of all refugees, including family members, by region.

U.S. Has Accepted ‘Many’ Syrian Refugees?

Walker done his remarks about Syrian refugees on CNN’s State of a Union, where anchor Jake Tapper remarkable Obama’s devise to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees and asked Walker because he opposes

Walker, Sept. 13:

As of Aug. 31, a U.S. had supposed 1,293 Syrian refugees in mercantile 2015, that ends Sept. 30, according to figures

Obama had authorized

Although an boost of an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees would be substantial, it’s reduction than what some other countries have committed to accept or have already accepted.

Since 2013, Germany has committed to usurpation 35,000 Syrian refugees, and Canada has committed to 11,300, according to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

In addition, “many some-more refugees have changed casually [outside a nation to other nations] and have been postulated haven or are in a routine of carrying their claims assessed,” Ariane Rummery of a UNHCR told us in an email.

Rummery supposing us with information that showed Germany has perceived scarcely 40,000 new haven applications from Syrians in a initial 7 months of 2015, and Hungary has perceived scarcely 11,000 in a initial 6 months. The U.S. has perceived only 545 in a initial 7 months of 2015, a information show.

Contributing: Eugene Kiely

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