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As close newsreaders may recall, the area around Pontiac has been a hotbed of high anxiety when it comes to helping the dazed and displaced victims of the Syrian civil war find their way to safety in the United States. You’d think residents of the same country that charged into the Middle East 15 years ago, ostensibly to oppose violence and hatred, would warmly welcome the victims of Middle Eastern strife here.
Apparently, those rules don’t apply around the seat of Oakland County.…