Ben Carson warns this will have a 'devastating impact' on American society

cities across america now seeing a growing homeless problem from military veterans to children more and more people are on the streets meantime the u.s is letting unaccompanied migrant children cross the border and live temporarily at texas military bases and now the biden administration is reportedly awarded an 86 million contract for hotel rooms to house migrant family members joining me now former hud secretary and american cornerstone institute founder dr ben carson dr carson welcome to the show thanks for joining us today thank you rachel it's nice to be with you thank you well you know we know that there's a homeless problem i'm here in new york we see it everywhere if there's an ability by the u.s government to open up our bases or pay for hotel rooms shouldn't they have first been offered to american homeless families or in particular american veterans who are homeless well one would certainly think that you would think that our priorities would be in that direction but for some strange reason you know we seem to be broken down into this camp of virtue signalers who say you know we're the most compassionate people and we solve everybody's issues uh and that's not true you know the money that's that we use on people who are coming here illegally is very very substantial amount of money and it has a domino effect if you took that same money and you work to improve the situation where they came from i think it wouldn't cost us any more money and it would be a better situation for them in the meantime we have a ton we have tens of thousands of people in this country who are homeless and who need our help and the fact of the matter is you know we we have the housing first advocates just put them in a shelter i think it has to be housing first second and third put shelter over their head and then housing second is you diagnose the reason that they're there in the first place and then housing third you fix it you know you have all these people with drug addictions we need to work on that we can't continue to let that grow it will have a very devastating effect on our society and the mentally ill people many of them are quite functional if they had the appropriate attention and care medications and counseling right so that's real compassion getting people out of those situations not just patting them on the head and saying they're there you poor little thing and i'm so wonderful and you know it's it really is kind of sickening to watch it going on and i think a lot of americans actually realize what's going on but you know they don't speak up uh we're going to have to start speaking up we're going to have to start really talking about what makes sense uh going to meetings talking to legislators yeah making your voice known because america is up formed by the people dr carson since we make our voices known

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Id: 4A7Nx30_nCs

Length: 3min 6sec (186 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 30 2021