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Linda J: Ricky Carioti and Washington Post

linda j: So he has now banned people from seven countries, including Syria, which I fled with my family in 2014, according to Toronto Star. But we were thoroughly vetted before we came here, just like other refugees exhaustively, endlessly vetted. Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post By Linda J. The Washington Post Fri., Jan. 27, 2017 President Trump says that it is not safe to accept certain kinds of refugees without extreme vetting that he has yet to detail. We are not terrorists. When our 7-day-old son died while receiving treatment for jaundice in a Damascus hospital, my husband and I decided to flee the country with our daughters. And if we'd been stopped from coming here, we would be suffering horribly right now. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.