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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.
Source: Azad Lashkari / Reuters

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

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