Though many Americans are divided on whether to let Syrian refugees enter the country, the owner of Cherokee Guns in Murphy, North Carolina, has his opinion figured out. The owner, who identified himself as Doc to WLOS, posted on a billboard: “Give me your tired, your poor… Keep your Syrian refugees,” along with directions to his shop.
“I didn’t put the billboard up on any kind of hate type bias,” Doc told WLOS. “It was just something that was my opinion … what’s going on in the world today. We really need to take care of our own before we take care of all these refugees.”
This has come in the aftermath of The White House announcement from Obama calling for the resettlement of “at least 10,000” Syrian refugees in the United States in the next fiscal year, in what would be an exponential acceleration of US efforts so far to welcome the refugees.
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