In a news conference on Thursday, White House spokesman John Earnest said: "One thing that the United States can do is to begin to admit more Syrian refugees into the United States, this year, the fiscal year that ends at the end of this month.
"The United States is on track to take in about 1,500 Syrian refugees. The president has directed his team to scale up that number, next year.
"He has informed his team that he would like them to accept, at least make preparations, to accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next fiscal year."
The Obama adminstration has been under increasing pressure to do more than just provide money to help meet the humanitarian crisis in Europe.
"The solution here is to meet the most urgent immediate needs of Syrian refugees, to make sure that we can provide basic medical care, basic shelter, basic food and water and even some other things, like internationally run schools in these refugee camps, to try to provide for the basic needs of those Syrians that have been forced from their homes," Earnest said.
Earnest said that about $4bn that the administration has provided to relief agencies and others is the most effective way for the US to help meet the crisis.
But he told journalists that President Barack Obama has decided that admitting more Syrian refugees next year would help boost the US response. The 2016 budget year begins on October 1....
aljazeera.com
10/9/15
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