Here's a couple of items I wrote on a related topic for Special Guests:
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO TARGET AND PERSECUTE ATTORNEY BRINGING IN CHRISTIAN REFUGEES
The Obama Administration continues to target and persecute the attorney representing Assyrian Christian refugees. Instead he keeps bringing in Muslims--some of whom are believed to be the very ISIS members who expelled these Christians from their homes!
Talk about things being reversed in a gross perversion of justice!
Chicagoland attorney Robert DeKelaita, was indicted on September 23, 2014 on charges claiming he falsified and exaggerated instances of Christian persecution conducted by Muslims in Iraq and Syria.
The government investigation has been ongoing since 2008, just after Obama took office, and the trial date has been postponed twice, yet out of the thousands of clients that DeKelaita has represented during his 20-year law career, the government has only been able to accumulate 12 cases that are in question.
Even the 12 former clients that have agreed to cooperate with the investigation have only done so after harassment and intimidation tactics were implemented by federal officers.
The lack of sensitivity in regards to the timing of the indictment has the community in uproar. If this investigation has been going on since 2008, why wait until just a few months after ISIS took full control of Mosul to indict DeKelaita? When hundreds of thousands of Assyrian Christians are living in refugee camps in Erbil, Iraq, how can the government claim that any accounts of Christian persecution are exaggerated?
At a time when the United States government is having a tough time with budget cuts, how much tax payer dollars have been spent on this seemingly meaningless investigation in 7 years?
Mr. DeKelaita has been an advocate for the persecuted Assyrian Christians both in and out of the courtroom, having dedicated most of his life to the cause. The government has launched a malicious attempt to destroy his career.
Robert is an immigrant himself, having fled Iraq and Saddam’s regime with his family as a 10 year old boy. His parents sought the American dream, just like every other American would. How can the government tell a man who left Iraq for the very same reasons that his clients are exiting that Christian persecution is exaggerated?
To show just how outrageously out of touch the Obama Administration claims are that there is Islamic persecution of Christians in the Middle East, consider the timing of the indictment based on 'ficticious' or 'exaggerated' claims of Christian persecution: It was filed right AFTER the historic ISIS invasion forcing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians to flee their homes, with many being murdered or raped!
For the record, Asylum is afforded to seekers by the US government if they can prove there is a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, etc., with such persecution arising either from government or from a group that the government can’t control (such as ISIS). Despite well-documented persecution of Christians in Iraq, the US government repeatedly has ruled that there has been no persecution of Christians which would warrant their asylum!
Attorney DeKelaita has been very successful in having most of these rulings overturned due to misconduct in the immigration court, and thus, is a target for an administration who supports virtually unlimited Muslim immigration, but which has gone beyond the pale in excluding and deporting Christians.
One notable success was having an “outdated and inaccurate” European report struck down, which had insisted that Christian persecution did not exist in Iraq. That report had been used for many years to deny asylum to Christians. DeKelaita’s own legal problems began shortly after that victory, once it was no longer possible for judges to cite this report as the basis for the denial of asylum, according to wnd.
In order to garner witnesses against him, Immigration officials approached former clients in their homes, interrogated them for hours and threatened them with action on their closed cases, while failing to inform them of their rights and pressuring them for wrongful confessions. Yet despite these tactics and with thousands of clients, only a dozen cases were pursued by the Justice Department, all of them Christians, although Atty. DeKelaita represents those of other faiths as well. His trial was set to commence in May, 2015, but it was postponed until October because the confessions did not hold up, yet DHS continues to harass and intimidate other former clients.
While encouraging and expediting immigration for hundreds of thousands of Muslims, recently “the Obama-led Department of Homeland Security has detained 27 Iraqi Christian asylum seekers in California for six months, despite the fact that most of them have family who are U.S. citizens living in San Diego.” They Assyrian-American community is outraged that this prosecution has begun after the success of DeKelaita in reversing unfavorable judgments and arguing successfully for asylum for persecuted Assyrian Christians. To claim, as the administration has done, with ISIS in control of large areas of Iraq and hundreds of thousands fleeing the country, that Christians are not being persecuted, is not only untruthful but immoral.
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IRAQI CHRISTIANS WHO ESCAPED FROM ISIS DENIED ASYLUM IN US
Iraqi Chaldean Christians who had family sponsors in the US were denied asylum after they had escaped from ISIS, according to Newsmax and Daily Mail reports.
Twenty-seven had been held in detention since spring 2015, with twenty two ultimately being sent back.
The other five have been charged with lying on their applications because they failed to explicitly state that they had German passports. They each face charges with penalties up to 5 years in prison and $250,000 fines.
The US accepted 727 Christians at the beginning of this year, “but few since” while accepting 4,200 Muslims, according to the London newspaper. Lisa Jones, director of Christian Freedom International said, "It makes no sense. These are people from a Christian culture like our own that needs protection from ISIS. It is harder for Christians to move around Iraq and Syria to even get the chance to seek asylum. While many more Muslims are granted asylum over here, Christians are being systematically exterminated." The news source said it wasn’t clear why they were being turned away, since Obama “has made bold claims to support refugee crises in Europe and protect persecuted citizens in the Middle East.”
Although it is well-known that ISIS has waged war on Christians, forcing them to convert or die, US policy has required proof that they are being persecuted. On October 5, 2015 it was reported that 11 Syrian Christians who were crucified and beheaded by ISIS “kept on praying loudly and sharing Jesus until their last breath. They did this in front of the villagers as a testimony for others." It was reported that they were brutalized badly and left on the crosses for two days. The group included two women who first were publicly raped.
With reports like this appearing more frequently in the news, it is hard to fathom the administration’s policy.