President Barack Obama is wanting his administration to “scale up” the number of Syrian refugees that are admitted to the United States. He is wanting and preparing for at least 10,000 Syrian Refugees in the upcoming year. Before that announcement, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was suggesting that only about 5,000 refugees would be admitted. She feared that 5,000 was for too low. A U.S. quota was of 75,000 admissions slated for the next fiscal year. The quota applies to all refugees from around the world. So far in all, about 1,500 Syrian Refugees have been admitted to the U.S. since 2011. They are pushing to have 1,800 refugees to be admitted to the U.S. by October 1st. This greatly impacts the world in many ways. One way is that the U.S. is trying to increase our numbers of refugees which is going to make jobs more hard to find than they already are. This in a way helps these Syrian people because of the Syrian Civil War taking place. This does not directly affect me and my life because I am only in high school but it is good for people of my age to know what is taking place in the world around us.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/10/politics/u-s-take-10000-syrian-refugees/index.html