Obama plans 30% increase of refugees admitted to US

"Unfortunately, President Obama unilaterally increases the number of refugees resettled in the United States each year and gives little thought as to how it will impact local communities".

Weise told the newspaper that Germany's healthy economy and improvements to refugee services over the past year meant that the country was well-placed to absorb new arrivals, particularly as their numbers have dropped off.

About 30 governors a year ago, including Gov. Nikki Haley, objected to the resettlement program after the terrorist attacks in Paris because they feared refugees - especially those from war-torn Syria - posed security risks.

"In addition to the very serious national security implications and the initial resettlement costs, admitting 110,000 refugees will result in an enormous long-term financial burden on the taxpayers". Majority ended up in refugee camps in Thailand and have been resettled in countries around the world, including the U.S.

"We're not likely to see this trend decrease", Haines said.

It's not yet known how many refugees will be targeted for resettlement from individual countries in the next fiscal year, but it's likely that the number from Syria - and the number of Syrian refugees to be resettled in MI - will increase as member countries of the United Nations try to react to the millions being displaced by the civil war there.

The U.N. refugee agency chief, Filippo Grandi, said Tuesday that Europe needed to boost its efforts to take in people from places like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. "States are in a position to either help support or facilitate that through delivery of benefits, or not".

The new goal is a 30 percent increase from this year's directive of 85,000 refugees. But no Syrian refugees have been accused of plotting or carrying out attacks inside the United States. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has called for the U.S.to accept more refugees from Syria, which has been embroiled in conflict for more than five years.

Haley's opposition has not changed, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

"The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, appointed by President Obama, told Congress that the Federal Bureau of Investigation can not vet the Syrian refugees who are coming to the United States to determine whether or not they are ISIS terrorists, whether or not they intend to wage jihad in an attempt to murder innocent Americans", Cruz said.

But as the Syrian civil war ravages that nation, it's not that or any other Middle East country that is sending the most refugees to the U.S.at the moment. To place this in context, the United States has accepted only a fraction of the 480,000 Syrians who've fled their war-torn country, and nearly half of these have been under the age of 14-the rest have gone elsewhere.

Republicans tried to pass blockades to restrict benefits for Syrian refugees seeking asylum in the US, but they did not rally enough support. The crisis is contributing to political upheaval in the region, and to human trafficking and humanitarian crises. Should more people arrive, it would put us under pressure, then we would go into so-called crisis mode.

Polling suggests the public leans in favor of accepting refugees, though at levels far below what Mr. Obama is proposing.

"We are preparing for between 250,000 and 300,000 refugees this year", he said.

At least one governor has had a change of heart on the issue. "As the secretary has said, this is who we are; this is America at its best", said State Department spokeswoman Julia Mason.

Buffalo's four refugee resettlement agencies welcomed 225 refugees from Syria between January 1 and August 31, according to a database maintained by the State Department's Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Kansas and New Jersey have taken the broader approach of completely opting out of the resettlement program.

President Barack Obama shares a laugh with a 16-year-old refugee from Myanmar after speaking about the refugee situation during a visit to the Dignity for Children Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015.

That's because the White House plans to take in more refugees in the upcoming fiscal year, which starts October 1.

"For generations, the United States has been a safe haven for people fleeing persecution". Each participant of the program is carefully selected from refugee camps.