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Earlier this year, at least 30 US governors said they don’t want Syrian refugees to come to their states. Conservative, red-state Utah, however, not only welcomes refugees but also, over the years, has resettled 60,000 of them. Correspondent Lucky Severson reports from Salt Lake City on why Utah has a history of welcoming strangers and what religious groups are doing to help out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cRefugees are not the ones harming this country,\u201d says Aden Batar, director of immigration and refugee resettlement for Catholic Community Services of Utah. \u201cEver since the refugee resettlement program started back in the \u201970s, we have more than 3 million successfully resettled in the US, and those refugees are contributing members of our society.\u201d
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