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Clapper said the U.S. was aggressively screening the small number of Syrian refugees it has accepted. The Obama administration said it intends to accept about 10,000 Syrian refugees and increase the overall number of refugees allowed into the country from around the world to 85,000 in the next 12 months. That total would increase to 100,000 by 2017. The U.S. now accepts up to 70,000 refugees per year.
Michigan's Gov. Rick Snyder, also a Republican, is talking with federal officials about what the state can do about accepting more refugees from Syria and building on more than a century of Arab immigration to the state.
Cruz was campaigning ahead of Michigan's March 8 presidential primary.