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Detroit: Iraqi ex-con, veteran, Christian, fears for life if deported

2017-04-14

[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.

I imagine the Kurds would be delighted to have him...

Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#4 From the change.org petition referenced in the article:

His father died while he was overseas in Korea. When Nahidh returned to America for his father's funeral, he suffered from depression, guilt, anxiety and PTSD. He received an honorable discharge and returned back to Michigan to take care of his mother and siblings. His mother was then diagnosed with cancer in her early 40's and Nahidh stuggled to provide for the family.

It is not clear to me why the gentleman would be suffering from PTSD after serving in Korea about 35 years ago. It is clear to me why a young man feeling the weight of care for his family might be a bit edgy after the death of one parent and facing the expensive care and possible death of the other parent.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-04-14 18:12

#3 It appears that he committed at least two separate armed robberies on two successive dates in February 1983: http://mdocweb.state.mi.us/OTIS2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=173835

I have mixed feelings here. I assume that he was honorably discharged from the Army. He served his sentence, and was released - so he presumably paid his debt to society.

I guess I support his deportation, as long as every Arab refugee who is WORSE than this guy gets booted as well.

Posted by: Lone Ranger 2017-04-14 17:45

#2 Shaou said he tried to become a citizen when he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1980 at age 17.

He could have naturalized at the age of 18, with or without enlistment. Trump should cut this guy a break. Democrats defend their felons. We should defend ours.

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-04-14 15:55

#1 BYE!

Shaou told the workers that if they had no idea what it is like to be taken advantage of, he would show them. He pulled out his gun and told them to give him the money from the register.

The employees gave him money and Shaou said he remembers walking outside. But as he was pulling out of the McDonald’s parking lot, he was stopped by a police car.

He claims he doesn’t recall police lights on the car, and all he remembers seeing was a uniform and a weapon – not the person’s face. But it was a police officer.

Shaou — who claims he blacked out during parts of the incident — grabbed his gun and shot at the officer’s upper arm. As the officer spun around from the velocity of the bullet, Shaou shot again, hitting his shoulder.

Posted by: Frank G 2017-04-14 14:46

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