On Monday, President Obama announced that the United States should welcome Syrian refugees. As with most of the President's public statements, conservatives everywhere were outraged. Republican governors (and yes, New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan) all across the country pledged to protect their borders from "those refugees" as Texas Governor Greg Abbott so kindly stated. I've learned in my years of education the important concept of not standing idly by. In my first couple months of college, I learned this concept once more in workshops about sexual assault, alcohol abuse, and racial and cultural tensions. The attack in Paris sent waves of shock throughout the world. How could such...
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