Due to the strain that is put on the countries that [of] taking in refugees, this increases the tensions of the people increasing the risk of discrimination and violence. The repetition of the word "increases/increasing" suggests that we can delete some overlap. Assuming that, in this instance, "strain" and "tension" refer to the same thing, if we make our verb "increases," then the object completes the basic point: The strain increases what ?

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