America: ARRESTED 199 Iraqis and deported with the approval of Baghdad
America: ARRESTED 199 Iraqis and deported with the approval of Baghdad
2017/6/15 10:46
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Msawon said that US immigration authorities have arrested 199 Iraqi immigrants, mostly from the Detroit area, in the last three weeks and moved to deport them after Iraq agreed to accept the deportees in a deal to lift it from the list of countries that President Donald Trump is seeking to prevent the next ones from entering the United States.
Said Gillian Christensen , a spokeswoman for the enforcement of US immigration laws and tax administration in a statement Wednesday that authorities have arrested 114 Iraqis at the weekend in the Detroit area and arrested 85 others in other areas over the past weeks.
All these moves come under the management of Trump ‘s quest to strengthen enforcement of immigration laws and push countries to accept the return of their children who have been sentenced to deportation from the United States.
The crackdown of Iraqi immigrants in the wake of the US government ‘s decision to remove Iraq from the list of countries targeted by a modified version of a temporary ban was issued in March.
Said Christensen , the vast majority of those arrested were convicted of criminal charges such as murder, rape, assault, kidnapping, robbery, drug trafficking and violations relating to the possession of arms and other crimes.
She added that by April 17, 2017 , there were 1444 Iraqis were sentenced to final orders of deportation, and since the agreement was reached on March 12 , eight Iraqis were deported to their country.
Lawyers said there are dozens of Iraqi Catholics , Chaldeans in Detroit among the targets in combing operations, and fear some of them killed if they were deported to Iraq.
Martin said Mana head of the Chaldean community organization in a statement Wednesday , “is disturbing strongly that the enforcement of US immigration laws and tax administration indicate its intention to move the Chaldean Christians to Iraq where they face persecution and death because of their religious beliefs.”
Lawyers, activists and relatives of the deportees had also been arrested on Iraqi Kurds in Nashville , Tennessee.
Lawyers and activists that a number of those arrested had come to the United States as children and fell into trouble and they are already serving their sentences, and some of them spent a long time in the United States even forgotten the Arabic language.
The Iraqi official said earlier that the diplomatic and consular missions will coordinate work with the US authorities for the issuance of travel documents for deportees.
alliraqnews.com
