奧巴馬計劃在年接納更多難民大綱

President Barack Obama has set a goal to admit 110,000 refugees into the United States during the 2017 fiscal year, which is about 10,000 more than his initial goal and about 30 percent higher than this year.

Secretary of State John Kerry announced the new resettlement goal during a closed session with members of the House and Senate judiciary committees Tuesday, according to media reports.

The last time the U.S. set a resettlement goal as high as Obama's was during Bill Clinton's presidency in 1995, when Clinton agreed to accept 112,000 refugees. During the 2015 fiscal year, the U.S. admitted just 70,000 refugees.

The report, which was obtained by Politico, said the Obama administration wants to admit a “significantly higher” number of refugees from Syria next year.

Obama will likely formally announce the refugee plan before he attends a summit on refugees during next week's General Assembly meeting at the United Nations.美國總統奧巴馬計劃在2017財年將美國接納的難民人數增加爲11萬。這比他原先計劃的人數多1萬人，也比今年增加30%。

據媒體報導，美國國務卿克里星期二在衆議院和參議院司法委員會的閉門會議上宣佈了這項新的安置目標。

美國上一次定下像奧巴馬設定的這麼高的安置目標是在1995年比爾·克林頓擔任總統期間。當時他同意接納11萬2000名難民。美國在2015財年只接納了7萬難民。

據美國政治新聞網報道，奧巴馬政府希望在明年接納“人數明顯增多的”敘利亞難民。

奧巴馬下週出席聯合國大會關於難民問題的峯會前，可能會正式宣佈這項難民安置計劃。