Trump’s immigration policy from the other side

Trump’s immigration policy from the other side

From Iraq, courtesy of Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda.  As I’ve said, the people at my wife’s Antiochian Orthodox church have taught me that neither side of our American debate reflects what those people from the Middle East appear to think.

From my perspective in Iraq, I wonder why all of these protesters were not protesting in the streets when ISIS came to kill Christians and Yazidis and other minority groups. They were not protesting when the tens of thousands of displaced Christians my archdiocese has cared for since 2014 received no financial assistance from the U.S. government or the U.N. There were no protests when Syrian Christians were only let in at a rate that was 20 times less than the percentage of their population in Syria.

Take it as an alternate view against the scores of Iraqis found by the press who have condemned the policy.  It is worth pondering where the millions of protesters were, since I remember seeing no protests at all during those times he mentions.


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