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Detroit: Iraqi ex-con, veteran, Christian, fears for life if deported
[DetroitNews] After spending 33 years, six months and 21 days in prison, Mahid Shaou faces another debt some say is too steep: Deportation back to Iraq, a country where he knows no one, doesn’t speak the language and fears being killed by Islamic State militants because he is Christian.Shaou is among hundreds of local Iraqi Christians facing deportation in the wake of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Activists call the looming deportations an “egregious human rights violation” because of the genocide against Iraqi Christians by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. After Shaou was paroled from prison six months ago for robbing a restaurant and wounding a police officer, he was never freed -- he immediately was transferred into federal custody. This week, immigration officials moved Shaou to a detention facility in Louisiana, where he’s been told he will be deported any day to Iraq.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-04-14 |
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