The Guardian: a deal between Baghdad and Washington ended a ban on Trump

The Guardian: a deal between Baghdad and Washington ended a ban on Trump

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Iraqis are subjected to raids of displacement across the United States by Trump Management, in a campaign described by lawyers and activists as a "death sentence" for members of the Iraqi Christian minority.


And arrested the US Immigration Organization the end of the week , more than 200 Iraqi citizens are covered by deportation after being convicted on criminal charges. In the state of Detroit alone it has been arrested 114 people , mostly Iraqi Chaldean minority - which has suffered like many other Christian denominations of persecution Daesh and other extremist groups. The Hagar 's success Konga - 55 years old , who was arrested in Detroit on Sunday morning - to the United States with his family in 1977. No one left of his relatives in Iraq. Shawki says his brother , "What is going to do there? They judge him to death." He adds that his brother does not speak Arabic and another member of the family left Iraq after being kidnapped for ransom twice, and says " the government of Iraq can not protect its citizens, how to protect Christians returning from the United States?". These concerns echoed by activists including humanitarian organization for minorities that provide aid to the Iraqi minorities, where it plans to file a lawsuit to the American Civil Liberties Union in order to halt the deportation of the Chaldeans to Iraq.
Says Mark Arabo , founder and president of the Foundation "Donald Trump governs the Christians to death."
Over the past year , John Kerry , US Secretary of State said at the time that genocide is against Christians in Iraq, despite the fact that international courts did not describe the violence of this characterization.
The spokeswoman for the International Organization for Migration Gillian Christensen said the majority of the detainees were convicted of crimes including murder, rape , severe assault, kidnapping, robbery, drug trafficking , sexual abuse and use of arms and other crimes.
In Detroit , Christensen said the arrest took place to address the public safety of foreign criminals who were arrested for the threat. But activists scoffed at this claim and claimed that the charges passed by contracts and convicts have already served their sentences for such crimes, where he spent the success of 23 years in prison on charges of drugs and was released in 2009.
He says his brother "during his stay in prison was committed and helped teach other guests, and that over the past eight years as director of operations work in a large department stores , and was supervised by 400 employees, it has greatly changed his life. "
He adds his brother , said the arrest made he thinks disappoint the country in which he considers his home, "This is not the United States.
I live here 40 years ago, I believe in the Constitution and I love this country to death and ready to sacrifice himself in the process if necessary. But to tell these that you have committed a crime since 30 years old and you now have to pay the price for that mistake again, this is not logical. "
In the past , Iraq was not cooperating with the US deportation efforts, but the two countries negotiated in March on a new approach after Trump travel ban on citizens issued seven Muslim - majority countries , including Iraq. Was amended after the ban revoked by the Federal Court no longer includes Iraq and excluded religious minorities , including Christian.
According to the executive order that the rules have changed for Iraq because " the Iraqi government has taken steps to enhance the travel documents and the exchange of information and that the return of Iraqi citizens are covered by the orders of the final cancellation."
And activist Andrew Fry said that the process of other arrest took place in Nashville , Tennessee, where he was arrested 30 Iraqis at least. But unlike Detroit it has targeted arrest a group of members of the Kurdish minority.
Nashville is home to the largest number of Kurds in the United States. Lawyers and activists there that IOM raids began early last week by targeting people with criminal history, which began to arrest them from their homes since the early morning hours.
In response, it helped Droste Kokoiy - Kurdish nationalism and founder of the American Islamic Consultative Council - to open a hot line of the sixth until nine in the morning to call when it knocks at their door immigration organization.
Kokoiy that the operation says had a negative impact on society, as the number of fasting people who break their fast in Nashville mosque now fell to a quarter of the number that was fast at the beginning of Ramadan before IOM raids,
and added that "people feel panic and confusion and do not feel safe in their homes."

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