Newsrooms are calling on the federal government to allow the unfettered resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, even as clear majorities in the public and in Congress support adding additional certification requirements to background checks, and some want to stop the process altogether.

Fifty-three percent of Americans want to put a stop to the White House’s efforts to bring in more refugees, a Bloomberg Politics national poll released Wednesday found. A mere 28 percent of respondents in the same survey said they were happy with the system currently in place for accepting asylum seekers.