President Barack Obama and the White House is studying the possibility of more Syrian refugees to be granted asylum in the USA.
This was announced by the spokesperson for the National Security Council, Peter Boogaard.
"The administration is actively considering a range of approaches to be more responsive to the global refugee crisis, including with regard to refugee resettlement," Boogaard said on Monday.
The announcement signals the Obama administration's first real attempt at addressing the issue of whether or not Syrian refugees should be allowed into the USA.
According to USA Today, although the White House has not announced when to make a final decision, federal law states that Obama should reach the annual refugee limit by Oct. 1.
Last week, the White House only acknowledged the pressing refugee crisis in Europe but did not mention any impending policy change.
The crisis in the Middle East had already caused thousands of people from war-torn towns in the Middle East to die at sea in an attempt to reach Europe and find refuge.
Shocking images have also circulated the internet, including that of a 3-year-old Syrian boy washed up on a posh resort in Turkey, as well as the truck full of dead refugees abandoned on a highway in Austria.
On the other hand, Pope Francis asked Catholics in Europe to take in refugees to help aid the said refugee crisis.
"May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary in Europe host a family," Pope Francis said. "In the face of the tragedy of tens of thousands of refugees fleeing death in war or hunger, and who are on the road to hope of life, the Gospel calls us, asks us to be near, the littlest and the abandoned,"
The Vatican is also reportedly taking in 2 refugee families over the coming days.
