After Backing Trump, Christians Who Fled Iraq Fall Into His Dragnet

[CaliCat 3,957]

Maybe the so-called president is getting rid of lose ends and illegal voters who voted for him?

 

After Backing Trump, Christians Who Fled Iraq Fall Into His Dragnet

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/us/iraqi-christians-deport.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

 

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — A few Sundays ago, federal immigration agents walked through the doors of handsome houses here in the Detroit suburbs, brushing past tearful children, stunned wives and statuettes of the Virgin Mary in search of men whose time was up.

If the Trump administration prevails, more than 100 of these men may soon be deported, like the tens of thousands of other people rounded up this year as part of a national clampdown on illegal immigration.

But the arrests may have stunned this community more than most.

While President Trump was hurling verbal napalm at Mexico and vowing to keep out Muslims during his campaign, he was also promising to look out for people from these men’s besieged corner of the world.

They are Christians from Iraq — a land that they and their families fled decades ago because, they say, to live as a Christian in Iraq is no life at all, and sometimes means death. They settled in Detroit and its suburbs, accumulating into what may now be the largest population of Chaldean Christians in the world. They opened businesses, founded a dozen Chaldean Catholic churches and rose in numbers and wealth.

Even so, they, too, are subject to American immigration law — despite what the Chaldean community took to be an ironclad promise from a president whose election many of them saw as a miracle from God, helped along by their donations, their prayers and blessings from religious leaders.

 

Edited July 6, 2017 by CaliCat

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

New York Times painted that as a nice story and left out most of the criminal history.

 

"Those targeted for deportation have criminal records, according to Rebecca Adducci, Detroit field officer for ICE. They are legal U.S. residents, but because they have criminal records, they were targeted for deportation, the government has said."

 

https://patch.com/michigan/detroit/chaldean-godfather-among-114-metro-detroit-iraqis-facing-deportation

 

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/638828-trump-administration-faces-pressure-to-not-deport-detained-iraqi-christians/

 

[eieio 1,594]

Out..out...out. Let the deportations continue. 

 

I love that that we are winning again.

[CaliCat 3,957]

Now that they voted for Trump, they can all go home.

[Dashinka 25,890]

I think there are already two threads on this subject.  Personally, if these folks have criminal records (many of them quite heinous such as rape, murder, racketeering, etc.) they have run afoul of immigration rules which are fairly clear cut.  To my knowledge, there are still quite a few Christians living in Iraq particularly in the Kurdish regions, so I am not certain all the hype of immediate persecution is true.  Additionally, I think who they voted for is irrelevant, I wouldn't expect the Trump administration to go light on any criminal regardless of who they voted for, and I don't think this would have been any different if the DNC candidate had actually won as most of the deportation orders have been in place for several years.