In the single month of January 2016, at least 244 people—many of them children—died while trying to make it to Europe, fleeing violence, persecution and war in countries in the Middle East and North Africa. In Syria alone, (by some estimates) more than 470,000 people have been killed in five years of civil war that has devastated the country, displacing millions.
But, in parts of the United States, those seeking asylum and safety have been met with fear and even resolutions to keep them out.
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