President Obama promised to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the country and now that day has come. The 10,000th refugee is set to enter the country sometime this week (via Associated Press):

The U.S. will reach its target this week of taking in 10,000 Syrian war refugees in a year-old resettlement program, the U.S. ambassador to Jordan said Sunday, after meeting families headed to California and Virginia.

The resettlement program has emerged as an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, with Republican nominee Donald Trump alleging displaced Syrians pose a potential security threat.

Alice Wells, the U.S. ambassador to Jordan, said Sunday that keeping Americans safe and taking in some of the world’s most vulnerable people are not mutually exclusive.

“Refugees are the most thoroughly screened category of travelers to the United States, and Syrian refugees are subject to even greater scrutiny,” she said.

Wells said the target of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. in the 2016 fiscal year will be reached Monday, as several hundred Syrians depart from Jordan over 24 hours.

The resettlement of refugees caused controversy last year when governors from at least 31 states said they would refuse to allow refugees into their states, given the glaring lack of security screening. The FBI admitted that they couldn’t screen everyone, which heightened security fears, especially after the 2015 ISIS attacks in Paris. Democrats mocked the GOP position, which even some liberals viewed as totally out of touch with mainstream America, who are nervous about the rise in global Islamic terror attacks. Kevin Drum at Mother Jones noted that this could rehash the narrative that Democrats are weak on national security.

Meanwhile, in totally unrelated news, officials with the Department of Homeland Security released a Honduran national who was in the country illegally due to a “clerical error” just days before he stole a car from two elderly women and led police on a high-sped chase earlier this month.

And still, the 10,000th refugee is coming.

Sound off:
Do you think these refugees are “the most thoroughly screened travelers” coming into the United States or does this resettlement program put citizens at an even greater risk of more terrorist attacks on American soil, giving us yet another reason to keep and bear arms?

UPDATE: The 10,000th refugee will be here this afternoon.

Susan Rice: "Our 10,000th Syrian refugee will arrive this afternoon." pic.twitter.com/8HgJnIjVQV

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