Obama Lifts Refugee Admission Target to 110,000; Wants 'Significantly Higher Number' from Syria

The Obama administration proposes to increase the number of refugees admitted into the United States over the next fiscal year to 110,000 – a 57.2 percent increase from the 69,933 resettled in FY 2015 and a 29.4 percent increase from the FY 2016 target of 85,000. Read