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Eastern European ministers are due to gather to once again voice their opposition to compulsory migrant quotas, as countries creaking under the strain of a steady stream of refugees struggle to agree on common action.

Rather than claiming asylum in the first safe European Union country they reach, most head on toward wealthy northern states.

The decision may disappoint those who want a stronger response to the Syrian refugee crisis and anger those who fear it could open the nation up to terrorist attacks.

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.

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...

Mr. Murphy, the highest-ranking Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s panel with jurisdiction over Middle East affairs, returned a few days ago from a trip to that unstable region, including a visit to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan that the senator...

“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.

“Richard Harrington will be responsible for coordinating and delivering work across government to resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees in the United Kingdom, along with coordinating the provision of government support to Syrian refugees in the region”, said a...