BuzzFeed - "But, just to say if somebody is not living a very fancy life they want to come here because we've given them free benefits. No, we can't do that." Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee raised the possibility that Syrian refugees seeking refuge in the United States and Europe were just seeking "free benefits," unlike refugees fleeing the war in Vietnam who sought "freedom." "Well, the tragedy is when Germany began to process the refugees it turns out that only one in five were actually Syrian," Huckabee told radio host Jan Mickelson on Wednesday. "Four out of five, eighty percent were not even Syrian refugees. So this notion that we're saving people from a Syrian bloodbath, look I think we all feel some sympathy there but America has also a responsibility to carefully vet that it just opens the gate for." The Obama administration announced in early September that it hopes to take in 10,000 Syr
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