Here's What The 2016 Candidates Think About The Refugee Crisis

President Obama plans to welcome 10,000 more Syrian refugees to the U.S.     Willa FrejReporter, The Huffington Post Posted: 09/15/2015

As hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Syria seek refuge across Europe, U.S. leadership has begun considering what role it can play in mitigating the crisis.

More than 7 million Syrian refugees have been displaced by the war that began in 2011. President Barack Obama has asked his administration to prepare for the arrival of 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next fiscal year. So far, the U.S. has accepted about 1,500 refugees from Syria, and 300 more are slated to arrive by the end of September.

As election season kicks into high gear, the civil war in Syria and the resulting refugee crisis are inescapable policy topics.

Here's where some of the 2016 presidential candidates stand on whether the U.S. should be responsible for taking in more people from Syria:

HERE'S WHAT THE CANDIDATES THINK