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Capital Region Prepared For Possibility Of Syrian Refugees

WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Published September 15, 2015 at 3:40 PM EDT

Last week, President Barack Obama said the U.S. would accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees fleeing the war in their home country by 2016. Jill Peckenpaugh, director of the Albany field office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), says the Capital Region is ready to support an influx of potential refugees or migrants, should they come.