Carson compares Syrian refugees to rabid dogs; O'Malley: House bill unnecessary
What the 2016 candidates are saying:
Ben Carson compares Syrian refugees to rabid dogs
"We must balance safety against just being a humanitarian. For instance, if there's a rabid dog running around your neighborhood you're probably not gonna assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate your dogs, by any stretch of the imagination, but you're putting your intellect into motion, and you're thinking, 'How do I protect my children?'
"At the same time, I love dogs, and I'm gonna call the humane society. Hopefully they can come and take this dog away and create a safe environment once again. By the same token, we have to have in place screening mechanism that allow us 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." -- to reporters in Mobile, Alabama
Martin O'Malley: House measure is "unnecessary"
"I believe there's already some pretty elaborate vetting of the refugees, and I believe the House measure is unnecessary. I mean -- no group of refugees are more thoroughly vetted than Syrian refugees....It's a long and laborious process. So, I think that there's probably nothing -- very few things, in terms of recruitment that ISIL would like better, than for us as a nation and our leaders to say that we're only accepting refugees if they're of a...certain religious denomination. That's not who we are as a country." -- interviewed onCBSN
CBS News' Katiana Krawchenko and Erica Brown contributed to this compilation