By Eric Boehlert | culled from Shareblue MediaAs Trump tries to gin up fear and hate surrounding refugees arriving in the U.S., Helena elects a Liberian refugee as Montana’s first black mayor. One of the more poignant came in the deeply red state of Montana, where Wilmot Collins, a black refugee from Liberia, was elected mayor of the state’s capital of Helena. Collins, a progressive who unseated a 16-year incumbent, also became the first black mayor in Montana history. That second chance provided my family,” Collins said earlier this year after Trump moved to curtail refugees from entering the United States. “There isn’t any evidence of refugees in the United States of America actually committing terrorist acts.

Source: GNN Liberia November 08, 2017 19:52 UTC