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Amazing and well written piece that gives a unique perspective on the situation: someone actually trying to help purely out of basic human decency and others based on a vitriolic political agendas stepping all over those actions.

History really does rythme.

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Maybe there are other reasons that people didn't want a refugee shelter popping up next door to them, like crime and overcrowding. If she wants to help she can follow the law and do it without forcing everyone in her neighborhood to participate in a refugee transportation and housing operation.

Forcing?

She gave five or six people a ride, served them coffee, and then sent them on their way. Hardly a refugee shelter!

You're ignoring the part where they organized a campaign on Facebook that got hundreds of cars and boats to move people, and finally only stopped when they were trying to rent multiple buses and were told by the police to stop it.

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