200 immigrants from Iraq arrested in the US

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Employees of the US Migration Service over the past 3 weeks have arrested 199 immigrants from Iraq and have already begun preparations for their deportation. This work is carried out within the framework of an agreement between the Trump Administration and the Government of Iraq, according to which the latter agreed to accept all of their deported citizens in exchange for excluding Iraq from the list of countries whose residents cannot enter the United States. Most of those arrested lived in Detroit.

A spokeswoman for the US immigration and customs, Gillian Christensen, said that in the Detroit area 114 Iraqi citizens were arrested over the weekend, and 85 people were arrested elsewhere in the United States.

This operation was part of the Trump administration’s plan to strengthen immigration enforcement and force countries that in the past refused to accept citizens who were deported from the United States back.

Kristensen said that the vast majority of those arrested had previously been convicted of crimes, including murder, rape, assault, kidnapping, burglary, drug trafficking and other offenses.

According to her, as of 17 on April 2017, 1 444 of Iraqi citizens had been registered with final deportation orders. After 12 signed the US agreement with Iraq on deportation, 8 Iraqi citizens were taken to Iraq.

Dozens of Iraqi Chaldean Catholics in Detroit were threatened with deportation. Many fear that they will be killed upon returning home.

“It is very troubling that ICE has announced its intention to send Chaldean Christians to Iraq, where their safety not only cannot be guaranteed, but where they face persecution and death for their religious beliefs,” said Martin Manna, President of the Chaldean Community Foundation .

Some of those arrested came to the United States as a child, got into a bad company and have already served their sentences for offenses, say lawyers and human rights activists. Many have lived in the United States for so long that they no longer speak Arabic. An Iraqi official said earlier that Iraq’s diplomatic and consular missions will coordinate with US authorities to issue exit documents for the deportees.

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