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Solidarity over persecution: Keeping out refugees is not the answer

By Aaron Hartley–

Scrolling down a Facebook update list this week, it’s difficult to not find some sort of opinion regarding the Syrian refugee crisis, the terror attacks in Paris and someone who thinks the solution is to keep them all out. In light of crisis, people like to point fingers, but in doing so, they forget the basic tenants of humanity.
Earlier this semester, I wrote a piece on Islamophobia, and how it is a country-wide issue that needs to be collectively dealt with. Fear of refugees is in the same vein.
Some governors announced they would “not be accepting” Syrian refugees for the purpose of keeping their state “safe.