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Left: Emily Crane Linn and Pastor Clint Schnekloth stand inside the sanctuary of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, where Canopy is currently headquartered. Right: Refugee, Faez Arso, fled Mosul, Iraq in 2014, and is now living in Springdale.
J. Froelich

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service-affiliated non-profit resettlement group is taking root in northwest Arkansas. Later this year, pending approval from the U.S. State Department, Canopy Northwest Arkansas plans to resettle a hundred refugees a year from war-ravaged places such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan in the Fayetteville area. But not all Arkansas political leaders are on board.

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Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.