The Daily Caller: Liberals Flip Out Over Iraqi Christian Deportations, Overlook Policy Change

IRLI In The News

June 15, 2017

By Scott Greer

The Trump administration is set to deport over 100 Iraqi Chaldean Christians Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested in Detroit last weekend.

According to ICE, all of the Iraqi nationals detained had hard criminal convictions for such offenses as murder, rape and drug trafficking. They all been ordered deported by an immigration judge, who had ruled the criminal aliens were “ineligible for any form of relief under U.S. law,” CBS reported.

This move has enraged Democrats and left-wing journalists for amounting to a “death sentence” for the deportees, as well as a hypocritical move for a White House that pledged to protect Middle Eastern Christians.For instance, Vox’s report on the planned deportation featured numerous quotes from local activists and members of the community saying that all the deportees will die if they are sent back to Iraq. …Read the full storyby Scott Greer.

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