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

[DonViejo]

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.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/us/iraqi-christians-deport.html?emc=edit_th_20170705&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=57435284

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. If they "fled decades ago" why are they not naturalized by now?

ohhhhhh. further reading article tells us:

The ones they are looking for are "criminal aliens":
"Though most of them came here legally, as refugees or through relatives who were American citizens, their green cards were revoked after criminal convictions on charges including theft, drug possession, rape and murder."

And it seems to affect less than 200 people in the country so far.

[eissa]

2. These are my people

and I have ZERO sympathy for them. They gleefully cheered this asshole when he degraded Mexicans and Muslims, but now that it's their turn, they cry foul. As a persecuted minority, one would think they'd have some sympathy for others facing the same dilemma. And the fact that the majority of them still support him shows that lessons have not been learned.

[MineralMan]

3. Fake Trump Don't Care!

Our Fake POTUS can't even remember what he said yesterday, so he doesn't know that he talked about protecting Iraqi Christians. He can't remember that there even are Iraqi Christians.

What Fake Donald can't remember he doesn't care about.

The Fake President simply doesn't care. He doesn't have to, and he can't remember what it is he's supposed to care about anyhow.