US Meets Goal of Admitting 10K Syrian Refugees

A month ahead of schedule, the Obama administration has announced that it has met a goal set a year ago to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees.

"The 10,000th Syrian refugee will arrive this afternoon (Monday)," National Security Advisor Susan Rice announced in a statement.

"On behalf of the President and his Administration, I extend the warmest of welcomes to each and every one of our Syrian arrivals, as well as the many other refugees resettled this year from all over the world," Rice wrote in the statement.

The goal was to welcome 10,000 refugees within this fiscal year, which ends September 30th. More than four million people have fled Syria since 2011, according to the U.N.

In total the U.S. has admitted 85,000 refugees.