Posted on 01/27/2017 7:15:23 PM PST by markomalley
The United States could prioritize the resettlement of Christian refugees over members of other religious groups, President Trump said on Friday.
“They’ve been horribly treated,” Trump said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network anchor David Brody. “Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough, to get into the United States?”
“If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them.”
When asked by Brody if he saw helping persecuted Christians abroad as a “priority,” Trump promptly replied, “yes.”
On Friday Trump signed an executive order that bans Syrian refugees indefinitely and suspends the U.S. refugee program for 120 days, after which time the secretaries of State and Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence will be able to decide which countries to accept refugees from.
The order also says that the administration should "prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality."
As a presidential candidate, Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the U.S., arguing that terrorists were entering the country by posing as refugees. He also called for the creation of a Muslim registry.
His latest comments to prioritize Christian refugees puts Trump in the same camp as former primary rivals Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.).
Of the nearly 85,000 refugees admitted to the U.S. in fiscal 2016, 38,901 were Muslims, while 37,521 were Christians, according to a Pew Research Center report.
According to that same report, about 99 percent of Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S. were Muslim, while less than 1 percent were Christian.
Praise be to God!
I hope President Trump will rephrase this slightly. Persecuted members of minority religions (Shiites and Sunnis are members of the same, majority religion in all countries of concern) in their home country should get priority. That wording has the same effect as giving non-Muslims priority, but it is harder to challenge in court.
See what happens when a Muslim isn’t in charge?
>Persecuted Christian refugees will get priority<
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That means that all Christians get priority because all Christians are persecuted in the M.E.
America is not for muzzie monsters but for Christians.
saudis can have the muzzie migrants, all of the muzzie migrants. muzzie migrants should be grateful for the chance to emigrate to the mother muzzieland.
Winning, I never get tired of it.
Amen!
Glory to God in the Highest,
Keeping our prayers going,
President Trump needs all of the help he can get from prayer warriors,
I get real mad because the left compares Muslims coming to the united state to Jew fleeing Nazi Germany when what is going on is that any one not Islamic is being persecuted. Christians are the biggest group being persecuted. only 56 Christian out 10,801 have been allowed into the united states.
I laughed earlier this week when an FTer said “Every day is like Christmas”
But it’s true. This is the most amazing first week I’ve ever seen.
About time truly persecuted minorities get priority. Let the islamifascists kill each other in their home countries.
Thank you Lord. God bless president Trump.
obama chose not to bring persecuted Christians here. The reported numbers of Christians were .03%. What was his goal if it wasn’t to give the persecuted a refuge? To fundamentally change our country into a muslim one.
How will they be able to determine if a person with no papers is truly a Christian?
Mark, here is some raw intel to support the need for M.E. Christian asylum in the USA:
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ISIS horror: Christian missionary women raped and beheaded, men and boys tortured and crucified
October 1, 2015
(Some women prayed The Lord’s Prayer as they were being raped)
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Shocking details have emerged about the horrible deaths of 11 male and female Christian missionaries captured by ISIS in a village near Aleppo, Syria, based on eyewitness accounts received by Christian Aid Mission.
As the dangers of continuing their work mounted in Aleppo, all of these Christian workers – including the 12-year-old son of a team leader – were given the option to leave.
They stayed because they felt they were called to share Christ with those caught in the crossfire, according to the ministry director. “Every time we talked to them,” the director said, “they were always saying, ‘We want to stay here – this is what God has told us to do. This is what we want to do.’ They just wanted to stay and share the gospel.”
Surviving relatives who went into hiding provided the details of the cruel executions to Christian Aid.
The Christian workers were captured on August 7th. On Aug. 28, ISIS militants asked the 11 missionaries if they had converted from Islam to Christianity. When the Christians affirmed they had, the rebels asked if they would return to Islam. The Christians said they would never renounce Christ.
The 41-year-old team leader, his 12-year-old son and two ministry members in their 20s were questioned at one village near Aleppo where ISIS fighters had mustered a crowd. The team leader had provided oversight to nine house churches he helped to plant.
In front of the team leader and his relatives in the crowd, the Islamic extremists cut off the fingertips of the boy and severely beat him, telling his father they would stop the torture if he, the father, returned to Islam.
When the team leader refused, relatives reported, the ISIS militants also tortured and beat him and the two other ministry workers. The three men and the boy were then crucified.
“All were badly brutalized and then crucified,” the ministry director said. “They were left on their crosses for two days. No one was allowed to remove them.”The martyrs died beside signs the ISIS militants had put up identifying them as “infidels.”
Eight other ministry team members, including two women, were taken to another site in the village the same day and were asked similar questions before a crowd.
The women, ages 29 and 33, tried to tell the ISIS fighters they were only sharing the peace and love of Jesus Christ and asked what they had done wrong to deserve the abuse.
The Islamic extremists then publicly raped the women, who continued to pray during the ordeal, leading the ISIS militants to beat them all the more furiously.
As the two women and the six men knelt before them they were all praying before they were beheaded.
“Villagers said some were praying in the name of Jesus, others said some were praying the Lord’s prayer, and others said some of them lifted their heads to commend their spirits to Jesus,” the ministry director said.
One woman seemed to have an experience similar to Stephen in the book of Acts, when he gazed up to heaven at his stoning. “One of the women looked up and seemed to be almost smiling as she said, ‘Jesus!’”
After they were beheaded, their bodies were hung on crosses, the ministry director said, his voice breaking. He had trained all of the workers for their evangelistic ministry, and he had baptized the team leader and some of the others.
“They kept on praying loudly and sharing Jesus until their last breath,” he said. “They did this in front of the villagers as a testimony for others.”
“I asked them to leave, but I gave them the freedom to choose,” he noted. “As their leader, I should have insisted that they leave.”
Christian Aid Mission believes there are hundreds of former Muslims in Syrian villages who are in danger of being captured and killed by ISIS. The underground church in the region has mushroomed since June 2014, when ISIS began terrorizing those who do not swear allegiance to its caliphate, both non-Muslims and Muslims.
Consequently, the potential for large-scale executions has grown along with the gains in ISIS-controlled territory.
Christian Aid’s local ministry partner is providing resources and trying to find ways to evacuate Christian families by other routes. Many of the ministry’s teams also remain in Syria. Christian Aid Mission assists those who do not or cannot leave with the means to survive and operate their outreaches.
Thousands of Christians, including children, have been brutally murdered by the Islamic pigs. Islam, by the way, is not a religion. Christians can easily be given priority. Thank you President Trump.
0burka must be deeply saddened at hearing this.
This is an answer to the prayers of many churches, for the persecuted Christians of the Middle East.
BTW, Obungo was able to exclude Christians because his Admin relied on the “UN” definition of refugees, which is only people persecuted by a state.
So all the people who were victims of Assad (muslims) could be refugees under the UN definition, but Christians could not because they were persecuted by ISIS, which Obungo did not recognize as a “state”.
Quick question for the forum: I see a lot of people I know on social media, even those who have said virtually nothing negative about DJT in the past, stating that this is unconstitutional. My argument is it cannot be unconstitutional as the 1st, and all other amendments, guarantee rights to U.S. citizens only and foreign peoples do not in any way fall under its protections. Is it not well within the government’s power to do this?
Thanks to God. The cries of Saints have been heard.
Thank you, President Trump! We hear all these horror stories about Christians being killed and tortured in the Middle East, but little ever seems to be done to help them.
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