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Meanwhile, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the United States will contribute almost US$419 million (AU$ 592 million) in humanitarian aid to help Syrian refugees. Part of the funding will go towardmedical care, including vaccination against measles and polio, safe drinking...

The policy change, which Kerry said would result in the Obama administration’s accepting 85,000 refugees next year – up from 70,000 – rising to 100,000 in 2017, comes as the refugee crisis in Europe threatens to explode into outright chaos.

Reps. John Conyers Jr. and Zoe Lofgren, who are the two top House Democrats on the committee dealing with immigration, also said the U.S. should take a total of 200,000 refugees, or almost three times the number accepted in 2014.

The White House has already taken in 1,500 Syrian refugees since 2011, a small number critics say [Xinhua].

President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to prepare for at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, the White House said on Thursday.

We call upon the Obama Administration to pledge to accept at least 65,000 refugees from Syria for resettlement in the United States by 2016. Germany allowed 20,000 migrants into the country over the weekend and is preparing for 800,000 this year.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest made the announcement at his daily press conference one day after Secretary of State John Kerry said that the country was committed to taking in more Syrian refugees to respond to the immigration crisis that was affecting Europe, reports Efe.

Even if every single ISIS fighter in Syria and Iraq bailed on the movement to become a hidden refugee plan, it would be less than 1% of the 4 million refugees that have fled Syria.

Syrians have ended up around Detroit and southeastern Michigan, for example, where a flourishing Arab-American community has swelled by nearly 20,000 Iraqi refugees arriving over the past decade. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. It was decided by the White House to take in 5,000...

“The problem here won’t be solved if thousands of people move to Canada or other countries”, said Mohammed Darwish, a mechanical engineer who brought his family from Aleppo to Kilis earlier this year.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told this week that some of the young men the USA would accept “could easily be people who could be infiltrated by terrorists”. Our borders are not as porous as those between Syria and most of Europe.

Crossing Greece to the FYROM border is just the first of many challenges facing the migrants in a Europe where their reception ranges from hospitality to hostility.