That is on top of the originally agreed-upon 5,000, and in addition to the 24,000 already in the country illegally.
From Deutsche Welle:
Germany announced its intention to offer shelter to 5,000 additional Syrian refugees on Friday, as its annual autumn meeting of the nation’s 16 state interior ministers in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony came to a close.
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Germany’s state interior ministers, who share responsibility for housing refugees, have already pledged to accommodate 5,000 refugees from the war-torn country.
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Around 1,000 refugees have already arrived in Germany as part of the government’s official resettlement program. But according to the German Interior Ministry roughly 24,000 more have made their way to the country independently, many entering illegally.
This move will be used to pressure the US to take more than 2,000.
See our Germany archive where we have posts about tensions rising among the German citizenry who question the resettlement of refugees in their towns.