BREAKING NEWS
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| Obama says U.S. will accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year |
Thursday, September 10, 2015 2:10 PM EDT
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| President Obama, under increasing pressure to demonstrate that the United States is joining European nations in the effort to resettle Syrian refugees, has told his administration to take in at least 10,000 displaced Syrians over the next year. |
| At a briefing at the White House on Thursday, the press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the United States would “accept at least 10,000 refugees in the next fiscal year,” which begins Oct. 1. |
| Earlier, secretary of state John Kerry, told a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill that that the total number of refugees taken in by the United States could rise to upwards of 100,000, from the current figure of 70,000. State Department officials said that not all of the 30,000 increase would be Syrians, but many would be. |
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