Despite governors’ resistance, Syrian refugees find support in US
Mahmoud had been living in this small Connecticut city almost two months to the day when the coordinated attacks across Paris killed 130 people.
He, his wife, and their three children had fled Homs, Syria, more than three years before. Now, more than two dozen US governors, as well as the US House, were calling for the vetting process for Syrian refugees to be toughened so that terrorists don’t slip into the United States.
That response to the attacks made Mahmoud so nervous for his family’s well-being that he told his daughter to wear a hat to school instead of a hijab to cover her hair…
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