It is unlikely that Trump knows about this, given his initial determination to ensure that refugees from Muslim persecution be given preferential treatment. Whoever is making this happen is likely trying to punish the Chaldeans for opposing the mosque. This person should be identified and fired, and these deportations halted. Trump may not know about this, but he is the President of the United States. It is his responsibility to know, and to ensure that justice is done.
“U.S. sending Christians back to Iraq to face ‘slaughter,'” by Leo Hohmann, WND, June 12, 2017 (thanks to Rita):
Chaldean Christians in Sterling Heights have been fighting a mega-mosque proposed for a residential area where they live for more than a year. Now, up to 200 of their family members are set to be deported by the Trump administration.
More than 100 Iraqi Christians were rounded up Sunday evening in federal raids in Michigan and will soon be deported back to their native land, where they face an uncertain fate in a country where Christians are marked for death in a genocide carried out by ISIS and other Islamic groups.
The raids were conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The ICE agents showed up without warning at the homes of Chaldean Christians and at a popular restaurant called Ishtar’s in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Those detained were mostly legal residents of the U.S., some having spent the majority of their lives here, but have had felonies on their records.
Hundreds of Chaldeans were out protesting Monday evening at 15 Mile and Ryan in Sterling Heights.
Nahren Anweya, who emigrated to the U.S. with her family as a young girl and is now in her early 30s, said up to 200 were rounded up Sunday, most of them Chaldean or Assyrian Christians.
Video taken of the raids showed distraught families screaming and weeping.
“So, as you can see from video the family members were very confused. They didn’t know what is going on, and their families were beside themselves,” she told WND.
Watch video of the raids Sunday in Michigan:
One man, Wisam, whose family is afraid to give his full name, is 49 and has been living in the U.S. legally since age 11. He served less than a year in prison for an assault conviction when he got into a fight at a bar when in his early 20s. He punched a man who was harassing his girlfriend.
“Wisam has lived here in Sterling Heights almost his entire life and had actually gotten into a brawl in a bar – there were four men who were verbally harassing his girlfriend,” explained Anweya, a spokeswoman for the Chaldean community in Michigan. “Because he struck first, he was the one charged. He served his time, and he’s been a hard-working, productive member of society ever since, but he never applied for citizenship, that was his mistake, and he was one of the people who was picked up yesterday.”
Anweya said ICE will not let Wisam speak with his family.
Like many Iraqi Christians, Nahren Anweya’s family fled Iraq in 1989 after being decimated by the Muslim community there. More came after the fall of Saddam Hussein made life even more difficult for Christians.
“They have attorneys filing motions to release him, but the DHS is not going to respond to a motion,” she said. “We hope that they do, but this is heart wrenching, a devastating situation.”
Chaldean Nation, a group that represents the Chaldean diaspora, tweeted Monday:
On Facebook, the organization posted a video and stated:
“In addition to facing a racist Sterling Heights Mayor Mike Taylor that wants to build a mega mosque, the persecuted Iraqi Christians are now facing heartless federal authorities that are forcing them to go back to Iraq to destroyed Chaldean towns and villages. Obama allowed Islamic cowards to destroy Iraq and Trump is finishing the job. HEARTLESS politicians that have no sense of reality.”
The Washington Examiner reported Monday that Trump is allowing 120,000 “DREAMers” to stay in the U.S. despite their illegal status, keeping in place the controversial Obama-era DACA program.
Nathan Kalasho, president of a Madison Heights-based Chaldean-centered charter school, said many of the Chaldeans like Wisam targeted for deportation back to Iraq are so Americanized they don’t even speak Arabic. He said the 100-plus people rounded up so far range in age from their mid-20s to 70. One woman is fighting cancer.
“Some people have been here for 40-plus years. A 40-plus year old was detained yesterday and has been here since he was 2 years old,” he said.
He said a majority of Michigan’s Chaldean community voted for Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election, thinking he would protect them and their family members left behind in the Middle East….
Porky The Crusader says
I’ll send this post at Trump right now.
Porky The Crusader says
I sent it to Pence too.
Joeyn says
Great job. Hope President Ttump does everything in his power to put a stop to such nonsensical injustice.
Porky The Crusader says
I send it to Melania either to be sure that something is done today.
newUser says
Melania also has a facebook and few people write there. She is likely to see this. Send it to her too.
dave says
how do I send this post to trump on twitter? i’ve tried to send a number of things to him but nothing gets through. has anyone been able to sucsessfully contact him and receive any reply??
Chanah Garcia says
I hope to God POTUS gets this!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
To my American Friends: phone the White House. The President works for you. Let him know how you feel. Not that many people from the general population call the White House so when a member of his base calls it does have an impact.
Gail says
The number for the Trump White House comment line is 202 456-1111.
I have heard that Trump himself answers the line sometimes in the early morning .
wool says
Trump is muslim in side his heart.you know what? he was awarded a precious Gold from Saudi King, you know what his blood is worked with patrol.You know what? if he is a Catholic,is not christian.
Lia Wissing says
Thank you for both sendings! May God bless you!
red rose says
Here is a White House petition, please sign it so they stop from deporting Iraqi (Chaldean) Christians to ISIS. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/halting-all-deportation-orders-involving-chaldeans-iraqi-christians-getting-sent-iraq-where-theyll-be-persecuted
Allan Mandrowski says
Typical.
99% of refugees are muslims and 1% are christians persecuted by those muslims and who get send back? the christians of course.
US foreign policy is eradicating christianity from the Middle East
TL says
And ICE agents know from Koran 9:5 that Muslims are preparing ambushes.
Patricia F Koenig says
This is a tragedy. Christian Western nations should not be allowing any Muslim immigrants. Even if they are not terrorists…they are anti-Christian. All the Christian Middle Easterners should all allowing in…their lives are in danger…and they will fit with our country and it’s values.
Dan says
Now THIS, is example of sending Jews back to Nazi Germany at the time of the Second World War.
Stipe says
It would have been great if Mr Trump had visited the Christians of the middle east.
Papa Whiskey says
But they’re not going to be making lucrative contracts with American arms and aircraft corporations, are they?
Stipe says
No they would not, however God could have blessed the USA.
MacUalraig says
Broke my heart to see him dancing around with the Saudis. I voted for him. Wish he’d help these Christians, but wouldn’t bet on it.
Irene Brekelmans says
I am sure Trump does not know about this, we must let him know, this is as crazy as the rest. And that may be all for the tenthousendst mosque they can not build? There are so many mosks already. When is enough enough? Anything else we can provide you with? (sarc)
How can we let Trump know?
He you leftists, don’t you care about the Christians any more? Where has your faith gone. Read what Jesus said and propheted for these days now. Read it very well, He knew then, you and I know now.
Ginger says
Presumably, the mayor is behind this. All I can say is that if these deportations go ahead, the US fully merits Iran’s description of it as the Great Satan.
Allan Mandrowski says
We deport non muslims, but all the muslim subversives are allowed to stay, get food, money and shelter, and then start abusing the hand that is feeding them and start killing us the taxpayers.
Kay says
*Hundreds of Chaldeans were out protesting Monday evening at 15 Mile and Ryan in Sterling Heights.*
Did it make the news?
Steve says
Confidence level of our letters, tweets, etc. actually getting through to the president…. low. Probability of our prayers being heard from God to move and rescue His children from harm…. High. Let’s all be in ferverent prayer for this. JW please follow this story up.
notmoron says
If Trump administration go ahead with deportation , they will kiss goodbye to the real CHRITIAN support
Stendec says
It’s apparent that ICE has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, who are turning American immigration policy on its head at the operational level in order to “eliminate and destroy Western Civilization from within and to sabotage its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
Charli Main says
ICE===Islamist Controlled Executive
SV says
Happens in Michigan, big surprise…
A European says
Frankly, there must be more than one person who ordered these Chaldean Christians to be deported back to Irak. It is a network, a snake pit. The deeper you dig, the more people will pop up who are on the payroll of U.S.-based islamic organisations which are run and funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other
Gulf States.
Donald Trump has said that he would give preferential treatment to Christians who were suffering from Muslim persecution, but did you see him in a church, when he was traveling through all those Muslim countries a few weeks ago, or even addressing the issue of Christians being persecuted in islamic societies? Donald Trump is a very busy man right now and the destiny of three or four hundred Christians from Iraq is unlikely to be at the top of his agenda, given his grapplings with cyberattacks from Russia, his failed attempts at pushing through a travel ban on Muslims or the impeachment proceedings he might be facing in some weeks. And what about his arms deal with Saudi Arabia? What are we supposed to think of that? Doing business with a rogue state, a promoter of supremacist Islam, a paymaster of islamic terrorism, a mendacious ally who stabs you in the back, whenever the oppurtunity arises. D.Trump is certainly a politician who knows every trick in the book, and there is always a lot of wheeling and dealing with politicians. I wouldn’t vouch for him, I would not rely on him.
Find the best attorneys for these Chaldean Christians, get them out of detention and … well, in history, abolitionists who set out to free slaves had many remarkable ways to achieve their goals
Ace-of-Clubs says
This is shocking news indeed. Americans need to contact the President directly and perhaps he could put a stop to this madness. How can the immigration people be picking on Christians, some of whom have been in the USA for decades ? Is it a question of going for a soft target ? Do they ever go into Muslims ghettos to try to deport people who are in the USA illegally ?
I hope these Chaldeans will be allowed to stay. They surely face death if returned to war torn Iraq.
Guest says
Trump! Fix this now!!!
DFD says
Sad!
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“….voted for Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election, thinking he would protect them and their family members left behind in the Middle East….”
Put 1,000 Christians on one arm of a scale, put an arms deal total value of $350billion (that’s 350,000 million dollars) on the other arm, and I will tell you what the outcome is.
Will Trump… Aggghhhhh! What’s the f…ing point !?!?!?! You can send as many emails and make as many calls as you want. Means nothing. Hope, pray to God I am wrong.
BTW, **I am a Christian!**
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Charli Main says
Does Trump get to see any of the Emails or other material sent to him or are they all intercepted by his staff who control what the president gets to see??
DFD says
Not a single one. And even if….
Richie says
There is no discussion in the European or American ‘mainstream medua’ about the ongoing Christian genocide . I think Obama referred to the Christians but only to twist it and paint Muslims as victims . If Pres Trump doesn’t act hell be proVing to me he’s a rino. He’s for gay marriage and abortion so he’s hardly a conservative
Ocean-blue says
Mr.Trump, you are disappointing your supporters. Have you forget your election promises ? you are still
favouring oppressive Saudi Arabia . Where is your effort to educate American people about Radical Islam ? Now this unfortunate Christians deportaton case.
Mr.Trump , please take action , We had high expectation from you.
Daniel Triplett says
I doubt Pres Trump has time to read any of the thousands of Tweets people send him in response to all of his Tweets.
My advice to anyone wanting to get in his ear or in front of his eyes with your thoughts is to Tweet Steve Bannon or Reince Priebus. They’ll put it in front of him if you can make an impression. They get a small fraction of his Twitter and Email traffic, so the chances of them reading your stuff is much greater.
Lydia says
Truly sad and my heart goes out to them.
The thing is, persecution against us Christians will increase,
despite who is in the White House. Just FYI.
Keys says
Please email or call your Senators and Congressmen about this (round up of Chaldean Christians in Sterling Heights, Michigan).
I emailed President Trump at the White House. I also called the White House, but the comment board was closed until tomorrow.
If anyone has contact with Franklin Graham or other ministers, bishops, or priests who have President Trump’s eat, please consider contacting them.
Keys says
ear, not eat. Sorry.
Arthur says
Episode IV: A New Hope
Episode V: The Deep State Strikes Back
TellItAllOrShutUp says
Why only mention the one guy who was in a bar fight? What about the others among them who, according to ICE, have criminal records that include “homicide, rape, aggravated assault, kidnapping, burglary, drug trafficking, robbery, sex assault, weapons violations and other offenses.”?
Margaret says
This story has been covered by local radio and newsprint (Lansing State Journal and Detroit News). In google search, I could only find Caldean Community Foundation, but this story had not been posted yet. However, through Faccebook there is a link which started “Code Legal Aid’ a funding organization to ‘stop deportations’.
I also tried calling White House, our Senators are big dems so have not tried them yet….
Margaret says
Also from Michigan, after donating……The Chaldean Community Foundation is covering these events through their facebook page. They are hosting a meeting with various resources; retired Senator Levin (dem), John Ashcroft Law Firm, ACLU (?), and CODE legal aid.
another Dave says
They’re only arresting immigrants who have felony charges or convictions.
In the case of Christian Chaldeans, I think a good immigration attorney could argue deporting them to their Homeland would amount to a death sentence so I do think that it’s extreme and unjon Deportinging (or fleeing) to Canada would be an easier and better solution (if they’d accept them).
ICE has been arresting felonious Hispanics in my town in California and most of them would tell you they’re Christians too but no one objects on those grounds.
With nearly a million immigrants in the US charged or convicted of felonys and scheduled for deportation, it’s an immense undertaking but needs to be done to
increase our security.
Sending Christians (like the Chaldeans) back to MEast countries that are engaged in Genocide against them is wrong and “cruel and unusual punishment” much like turning away immigrant seeking Jews from America during WWII—-and needs to be opposed and challenged.
Henner720 says
So wrong. Bad desicion. Cant have that. I will revoke right away. If i could. I cant so i put this. Even if my imagination should come up with worldclass utter bizar wrongdoing this one trumps it.
Debi Brand says
“Trump may not know about this, but he is the President of the United States. It is his responsibility to know,”
That is for damn sure.
Creole Gumbo says
“….but have had felonies on their records.”
You don’t know who these people are or what they have done. Saying that you are a Christian does not trump the law.
John says
Thank God it was halted temporarily…
http://catholicsay.com/judge-halts-deportations-of-chaldean-christians-to-iraq/