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jlf1961 -> RE: Why are Iraqi Christians facing deportation from US? (7/15/2017 11:38:03 PM)
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The hundreds being referenced are Iraqi Christians who came to the states on visas ranging from student to employment and without reference to being religious refugees or refugees of any sort.
It is no different from others being deported for overstaying their visas, it just so happens these are Iraqi. At last count, the crackdown has also netted Christians from other countries, as well as Latin America.
It is an attempt to make a mountain out of a mole hill and the fact that it had not been addressed by earlier administrations is a bit of a misdirection. This is not the first time something like this has happened, and the last time the BBC decided to run this type of story dealt with a group of Chinese who came into the country illegally.
What is not in the story is that if these people can prove that even now, after the over throw of the previous Bathist regime, they face religious persecution, they will be given the chance to apply for asylum on religious grounds.
But of course, that part of the facts has been left out.
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