State Dept. says it will exceed 10,000 Syrian refugees

The Obama administration will exceed the target goal of 10,000 Syrian refugees resettled in the United States this fiscal year, and may take in closer to 12,000, the State Department announced Monday.

“We will meet the 10,000 figure today, and I would fully expect that you will see additional Syrian refugees admitted into the United States between now and the end of the fiscal year,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday. “How many [more]? I couldn’t predict, but it would be roughly on the same pace that we have achieved over the course of the late spring and summer, which has been about 2,000 per month.”