The Obama administration has said it still plans to accept Syrian refugees. State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said refugees are intensely vetted.

Mark Toner: “You know, it’s also important to emphasize that these refugees are subject to the highest level of security checks of any category of traveler to the United States. It’s an interagency or multiagency screening process. It involves the National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. And particular to Syria, these Syrian refugees go through an extra, yet additional, forms of security screenings.”