The United States will increase the number of worldwide refugees it accepts in the next two years, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday.
The U.S. was originally slated to accept about 85,000 refugees from around the world next year, up from 70,000 and would rise to 100,000 refugees in 2017.
That number is for all refugees, not just those fleeing the Syrian civil war and Islamic State, which has taken over wide swaths of Syria.
Many, but not all, of the additional refugees would be Syrian, the Associated Press said.
The White House plans to take in 10,000 refugees from the Syrian crisis that has led to millions fleeing the region.
Kerry told the Associated Press while in Berlin that the U.S. couldn’t take more because of post-Sept. 11 screening requirements and a lack of money from Congress.
On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for the U.S. to up the number of Syrian refugees from 10,000 to at least 65,000.
