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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1021200)	6/14/2017 3:53:23 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1572580

"Obama's response to Russia invading Ukraine was characteristically weak." Whatever. NATO Prepares New Sanctions Over Russian Action in Ukraine - Sep 4, 2014 - ... President Obama and European leaders at a NATO summit meeting here on Thursday prepared a new round of sanctions against Russian

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1021200)	6/14/2017 6:57:34 PM
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Trump is deporting Christian refugees despite saying he would protect them In News by Tim Donnelly / June 14, 2017 The latest group to feel conned by the Trump administration is Christian refugees, who the administration is deporting after promising to protect them during the campaign. As Politico reported Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents over the weekend detained dozens of Christians from Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries who fled due to war, ISIS or other circumstances. Many of them were picked up in Michigan, which Trump narrowly won in the 2016 election. It’s home to a large population of Christians from Muslim-majority countries who backed Trump during the campaign, according to Politico. The news is naturally shaking up some lawmakers and community leaders, who said deporting these people is akin to a death sentence. “He promised he would help us, when in fact he’s exacerbated problems now by sending people back to the hands of the Islamic State,” Steve Oshana, an Assyrian-Christian activist with the group A Demand for Action, told Politico. Trump had previously been acting like it was only the Muslim refugees he wanted to kick out of the country. He signed an executive order in January that gave preference to refugees who belong to a religious minority in their country and have been persecuted for their beliefs — e.g. Christians in Iraq. As the Times wrote in January: During the campaign, Donald J. Trump picked up on these fears, speaking frequently of Christians who were refused entry to the United States and beheaded by terrorists of the Islamic State: “If you’re a Christian, you have no chance,” he said in Ohio in November. But this new push to deport Christian refugees is tied to his failed Muslim travel ban. As Politico writes: Initially, the so-called travel ban, which has been put on hold by the courts, included Iraq. But Iraq is reported to have gotten off the list by promising to accept people the U.S. wants deported. That means many Iraqis living in the U.S. who previously could not be deported for overstaying their visas, committing crimes, or other reasons can now be sent back. So in order to ban more Muslims from the country, the Trump administration had to kick out some Christians too.