U.S. to meet target of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees: White House

Pro-refugee counter-protesters gather during another group's protest against the United States' acceptance of Syrian refugees at the Washington State capitol in Olympia

Pro-refugee counter-protesters gather during another group’s protest against the United States’ acceptance of Syrian refugees at the Washington State capitol in Olympia, Washington, November 20, 2015. REUTERS/David Ryder

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As Europe bickers, police fire tear gas on migrants storming border

Stranded refugees and migrants try to ram down part of the border fence during a protest at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni, February 29, 2016. Reuters/Alexandros Avramidis

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4 European nations shut their borders to economic migrants

Refugees and migrants arrive safely on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. Turkey and Greece have agreed to cooperate to prevent the “human tragedy” suffered by thousands of migrants who risk lives crossing the Aegean Sea on their way to Europe. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

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UN estimates at least 120,000 people displaced in Syria this month because of fighting

Migrants walk through a field after crossing from Croatia, in Rigonce, Slovenia, Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. Thousands of people are trying to reach central and northern Europe via the Balkans but often have to wait for days in mud and rain at the Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian borders. (Darko Bandic/Associated Press)

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As some Syrian refugees arrive, Michigan makes case for more

In a photo from Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, in Warren, Mich., business owner Ismael Basha, left, looks on as Syrian refugee Mohammed Abo-Shaar, right, helps a co-worker assemble a frame. Basha, who came from Syria in the early 1980s, owns TSS Inc., which has 50 workers and makes automatic car wash fixtures and systems. Over the years, he said, he he’s hired refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Iraq, and, in recent weeks, several from Syria. He said they typically work hard and are dedicated. Many more are expected since the Obama administration pledged to accept about 10,000 Syrians in the next 12 months. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Thousands rally at German protest against refugees, Islam

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A protestor waves a German flag as he attends a demonstration of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West) in front of the Semperoper, Dresden’s famous opera house, in Dresden, Germany, Monday, Oct. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (The Associated Press)

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Hungary declares emergency, seals border, detains migrants

Hungarian police officers gather at the main border exit between Serbia and Hungary near Roszke, southern Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Hungary are set to introduce much harsher border controls at midnight ó laws that would send smugglers to prison and deport migrants who cut under Hungary’s new razor-wire border fence. The country’s leader was emphatically clear that they were designed to keep the migrants out. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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