Trump’s Refugee Policy Also Hurts the Most Vulnerable Christians
The U.S. has admitted only 70 of them from the Middle East, the region where they are most at risk.
Not long after becoming president, Donald Trump said he saw Christians in Syria as a “priority” for his administration. “They’ve been horribly treated. If you were a Christian in Syria, it was impossible, at least very, 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,” , though the U.S. had previously accepted Christians as it did Muslims. “And the reason why that was so unfair—everybody was persecuted, in all fairness: They were chopping off the heads of everybody, but more so the Christians, and I thought it was very, very unfair. And so we are going
