'Report' from WKU - Notice in the headline at the link, the MSM Spin already begins.
Bowling Green is preparing to welcome Syrian refugees later this year who are fleeing their country’s civil war. The Warren County-based Kentucky International Center has agreed to resettle 40 Syrians, but the decision is raising concerns in the local community.
"Resettle 40 Syrians," although these are not the first for Bowling Green, never mentioned is that such relatively small numbers (not small in the taxpayer funds they will eventually soak up) are always only the wedge in the door before all their relatives are 'chained in,' plus more unattached Muslim gifts to America.
Someone trying to allay those fears is Bashar Mourad of Owensboro. The physician, who is Muslim, immigrated to Chicago in 1989 on a student exchange visa. He later on worked in Houston before settling in rural western Kentucky.
"I was actually concerned when I first moved," Mourad recalls. "I didn’t know how I would be received, but people were so nice to us.”
Mourad did what thousands of fellow Syrians are trying to do now, although under different circumstances. Syrians today are fleeing their war-torn country in search of a better life. Some are hoping to find one in Bowling Green, a city that already is home to a large immigrant population.
The plan to open the city’s doors to Syrian refugees is creating backlash in what has otherwise been a welcoming environment. City Commissioner and Mayor Pro-Tem Melinda Hill has been one of the most outspoken critics of the plan to resettle Syrians in Bowling Green. She says she doesn’t have confidence in the federal government’s screening process. ...
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