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Obama Administration Hits Goal Of Welcoming 10,000 Syrian Refugees One Month Early
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syrian-refugee-resettlement_us_57c471b6e4b0664f13c9b54cThe 10,000th Syrian refugee to resettle in the U.S. this fiscal year arrived on Monday, the White House announced, following through on an ambitious plan by President Barack Obama to welcome more people from the country.
The administration also is set to meet its goal of welcoming 85,000 refugees from around the world by the end of the fiscal year, National Security Advisor Susan Rice said in a statement.
It’s the Syrian refugees who have been particularly controversial ever since Obama first announced plans last September to admit 10,000 of them in the 2016 fiscal year ― which ends Sept. 30 ― and especially after terrorist attacks in Paris last November. More than half of the nation’s governors said they didn’t want Syrian refugees in their states in the wake of those attacks, and Republicans in Congress repeatedly voted to make it more difficult for the government to approve them for resettlement.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump frequently talks about his opposition to Syrian refugees, insisting terrorists are among them. He first said he would ban all Muslims from immigrating to the U.S., refugee or otherwise, and later modified the ban to cover people from countries “compromised by terrorism” ― a broad designation that would include Syria.
The administration also is set to meet its goal of welcoming 85,000 refugees from around the world by the end of the fiscal year, National Security Advisor Susan Rice said in a statement.
It’s the Syrian refugees who have been particularly controversial ever since Obama first announced plans last September to admit 10,000 of them in the 2016 fiscal year ― which ends Sept. 30 ― and especially after terrorist attacks in Paris last November. More than half of the nation’s governors said they didn’t want Syrian refugees in their states in the wake of those attacks, and Republicans in Congress repeatedly voted to make it more difficult for the government to approve them for resettlement.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump frequently talks about his opposition to Syrian refugees, insisting terrorists are among them. He first said he would ban all Muslims from immigrating to the U.S., refugee or otherwise, and later modified the ban to cover people from countries “compromised by terrorism” ― a broad designation that would include Syria.