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What fascinates me is how in the world France is offering sanctuary to those fleeing Iraq and yet we in the U.S have seemed to not be concerned.BBC on UK Bishops urging asylum for Iraqi Christians
UN statement on ISIS violence against minorities mentions Christians alongside other groups
Mirror: Iraqi Christians need more support from UK
NYT on Iraqi Christians
France offers Iraqi Christians asylum
You were saying? Seems like western media is paying more attention to Christians than other groups, and asylum is being offered or pushed for specifically for Christians. Iran, meanwhile, is also offering Iraq assistance for displaced and wounded Christians.
Some of this, of course, is not surprising when seeing the ways that others in the U.S are being deported (even if they are elderly or children) despite where they are fleeing from the violence of dictators or drug-cartels in the Latin American world (often aided in their development by the U.S) and being fearful of immigration reform laws passed. And thus, we should not be surprised that either Iraqi or Syrian Christians would be treated the same.
When considering the entire debate on immigration and how many have been so focused on the Hispanic/Latino world coming in and yet ignoring where the issue also applies extensively to groups from the Middle East seeking refuge (just as it did in times past with groups coming in to escape harsh times - from those in the Asian world to those in the British Isles and elsewhere), it is interesting to see the ways we in the U.S are very selective.
With many coming over back in 2011, it was the case that 14,000 refugees were placed on hold overseas since June of that year, creating a massive backlog. As said best elsewhere (from BosNewsLife Christian News Agency » Blog Archive » U.S. Denies Entry To Thousands Of Persecuted Iraqi Christians (UPDATE) ):
Nearly half of all Iraqi refugees 47 percent were being denied entry to the U.S. because of the new security measures which block anyone with irregularities in their case review, Mills said. Irregularities such as gaps in documentation are common because many refugees flee their homes at a moments notice, often with no official papers. Many Middle Easterners, Iraqis in particular, have similar names and a refugee can be mistakenly confused with a name on a terror watchlist.
This issue also happened back in 2007 (as seen in Iraqi Refugees Find No Haven in US | The Nation ) - and Similar dynamics also happened with the Egyptians as well..
And on where others have been doing very excellent work trying to address the matter:
The situation of mass exodus/immigration that has arisen for the Iraqi Christians /Muslim minorities suffering severe persecution by others after U.S intervention in the area ...their being denied entry into the U.S is similar to what happened to other groups enduring the same, like the Hmong who were abandoned by the U.S after what happened with governments waging wars by proxy in Laos and the U.S lost, abandoning those they called to their side to others...and then having it where those groups were not acknowledged by the U.S when they sought refuge. Battles by proxy have led to so much damage (more shared in The New War in Iraq: US Occupation Shifts to Proxy Subversion | Global Research and US-NATO Proxy War in Iraq and Syria: US Financing and Training of Moderate ISIS Rebels in Syria | Global Research and The Battle for Iraq Is a Saudi War on Iran and In Escalating War Of Words, Saudi Arabia Fires Back At Iraq, Warns Of Civil War, Opposes Foreign Intervention | Zero Hedge).
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