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07-21-2017
Members
of President Trump's evangelical advisory board confronted the administration
last week about the effort to deport Iraqi Christians, according to a report in
the Christian Post.
Their
concern is that a group of Iraqis will be sent back to their homeland and face
persecution for their faith.
The
30 advisory board members prayed over President Trump in the White House last
week and took part in the all-day meeting, where they discussed the
issue.
"It
was brought up during the work day and discussed openly and a number of us
disclosed that this decision — that we know was not a White House decision but
a mid-level decision at the Department of Homeland Security — was a decision
that we had received a lot of criticism for," advisory board member
Johnnie Moore said.
"We
talked about it openly and we talked about it with administration people in the
room," Moore added.
Moore
said the conversation about the deportation of Iraqi Christians led to
subsequent talks about the issue and to an agreement to submit legal memos to
the White House on the matter.
"Without
disclosing too many confidential details, the administration gets it and they
are taking it seriously and working on a plan to address it," Moore
explained. "That is precisely because we have the type of relationship
where we raise our voice when something could have been done differently. We
also understand how it happens. We get it. The president of the United States
is not responsible for every single decision that every bureaucrat makes across
the United States government, a government with 20 million employees," he
said.
Moore
added that the "memos were sound legal arguments, rooted in genocide
declarations passed by both houses of Congress to show a legal justification
for treating these particular individuals differently."
Last
week a U.S. District Court judge halted the administration and their effort to
deport up to 1,400 Iraqi nationals until courts can look over the deportation
orders.
The
ruling means that the 100 Iraqi Christians who have been detained cannot be
immediately deported.
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