Obama orders U.S. to take in at least 10,000 more Syrian refugees

President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to "scale up" the number of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States in the coming year, directing his team to prepare for at least 10,000 in the next fiscal year, the White House said Thursday ...

A Senate aide said that Kerry had also told senators that “they’d seek an additional increase beyond that.”

“He gave a range of numbers,” the aide said. Kerry mentioned a potential new total as high as 100,000 ...

Vetting the Syrian refugees has been a problem. The U.S. relies on U.N. lists of refugees who are deemed safe candidates for resettlement, but the screening process can take between 18 and 24 months and strains the resources of the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Immigration Services.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday that the current migration is a “disaster of biblical proportions” that poses an opportunity for terrorist groups such as ISIS to “infiltrate operatives among these refugees.” ... 

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