Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Senate Republicans are raising concerns that the Obama administration is preparing to interview a “surge” of Syrian refugees, as part of the vetting process to potentially allow some to be admitted into the United States.

A handful of Senate Republicans said Friday that the Judiciary Committee has learned that the administration is sending officials to Jordan to interview thousands of candidates for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

“The Administration’s refusal to suspend or even slow the pace of such refugee processing is particularly disturbing when reports abound of [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] terrorists intentionally inserting themselves into the Syrian refugee stream,” the senators wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry.

The senators added that according to what the committee has been told, the administration is sending between 200-300 officials to Jordan for at least 45 days.