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    To bring refugees west, Americans look north – to Canada

    Jan 08, 2019 5 minutes
    Ed Wethli, a Pittsburgh businessman, came up against restrictions when he tried to bring all of a Syrian family to safety in the US. So he turned to Canada instead, successfully getting 23 family members to safety in Ontario.

    When Ed Wethli, a Pittsburgh coffee company owner, learned of a Syrian family in Saudi Arabia facing deportation back to their war-torn homeland, he says he simply had to help.

    He brought the couple and their two elementary-school boys to his home in December 2014. They applied for asylum, and settled nicely into their new American, middle-class suburb. But all was not well. Their extended family remained in Syria. They – and Mr. Wethli – listened with growing angst as stories of bombs, sniper attacks, and beheadings mounted.

    Then came the day that the photo of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who drowned when his family tried to reach Europe, circulated in September 2015. Spurred into action, Wethli texted 60 friends and told them to show up at his home that night. Twenty

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