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Tue Nov 17, 2015, 08:35 PM Nov 2015

(Gov.) Kate Brown: Oregon will keep accepting Syrian refugees [View all]

Kate Brown: Oregon will keep accepting Syrian refugees
SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown broke her silence on the controversy over resettling Syrian refugees Tuesday, saying that Oregon will "open the doors of opportunity" for displaced people.

"Clearly, Oregon will continue to accept refugees," Brown tweeted. "They seek safe haven and we will continue to open the doors of opportunity for them."

Brown, a Democrat, posted a second tweet: "The words on the Statue of Liberty apply in Oregon just as they do in every other state."
... more: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/11/kate_brown_oregon_will_continu.html

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