U.S. to Increase Admission of Refugees to 100000 in 2017 – Kerry

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.

Kerry did not say how numerous additional refugees would be from Syria but said that the U.S. was ready to help.

“Now the Obama administration wants to bring in [more] Syrians without a concrete and foolproof plan to ensure that terrorists won’t be able to enter the country… this isn’t good”, said US Sen. Part of the funding will go towardmedical care, including vaccination against measles and polio, safe drinking waterand food and shelter for the 12.2 million Syriansmore than half the populationin need of humanitarian assistance, the USAID said. Indeed, the “vetting” process to get refugees admitted to the U.S. appears to be quite onerous for refugees from ISIS-held territory, and that’s making even getting the promised 10,000 Syrian refugees into the USA hard.

“In consultation with Congress, we will continue to explore ways to increase those figures while maintaining robust security”, Mr Kerry said in Berlin after meeting German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “We can target it. But we don’t have the money allocated by Congress to hire people necessary to do the job”.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the US usually announces refugee caps at the end of each fiscal year with specific regional limits.

With as many as 1 million people estimated to arrive and seek asylum in Germany this year, Merkel said last week that European Union leaders needed to discuss how to boost support for countries neighboring Syria, including Turkey, as well as how to move more quickly to set up processing centers for refugees in Greece and Italy.

The president of the European Parliament called on the EU to approve 7 billion euros ($7.9 billion) for the Middle East countries hosting millions of Syrian refugees.

Around 250,000 people have died and 12 million have fled their homes in the past four years as a result of the ongoing war in Syria. “It is terrifying that on the one hand there is more and more impunity for those starting conflicts, and on the other there is seeming utter inability of the worldwide community to work together to stop wars and build and preserve peace”, Guterres stressed. The refugee crisis threatening Europe is complicated.