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  Republican governors and candidates move to keep Muslim migrants out
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Last EditedRP  Nov 17, 2015 08:07am
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AuthorRobert Costa and Abby Phillip
News DateTuesday, November 17, 2015 02:15:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionNearly two dozen Republican governors moved Monday to close off their states to Syrian migrants as leading GOP presidential candidates outlined positions that would discriminate against Muslims seeking refuge in the United States.

The efforts come amid heightened fears among Republicans, and some Democrats, that potential terrorists may be concealing themselves among the tens of thousands of people fleeing Syria’s civil war. At least one person who carried out Friday’s Paris attacks, which left 129 dead, appears to have entered Europe on a Syrian passport as part of the wave of Middle Eastern migrants arriving in Greece.

The rising unease among many Republicans toward Muslim migrants — and at times the Islamic faith in general — marks a stark and sudden shift in the 2016 campaign to issues of religion and national security. The debate could have significant implications for next year’s general election, in which GOP leaders had hoped to better perform with nonwhite voters than in past contests.
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