Twenty-six Democratic senators signed a letter Monday calling for more funding to help Syrian refugees, both abroad and by resettling them in the United States...

...The Democratic senators wrote in their letter that all applicants for refugee status should continue to undergo extensive background checks."The brutality and callousness of ISIL and the Assad regime are fully responsible for this humanitarian crisis. Ultimately the Syrian civil war must end," the letter reads. "But until that time, we can take the measures proposed above to have an immediate, yet lasting, impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of Syrians -- including those who will be needed to rebuild their country."

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