Bob Smietana of the Religious News Service has an important story today about the sharp decline in the numbers of Christian refugees seeking religious asylum that are being accepted into the United States.
The reduced numbers began during Trump’s presidency but have continued under Biden. It’s a bipartisan problem linked to the “anti-immigrant” hysteria heard so often on network news reports.
Some of those immigrants now being shut out of this country are Christians fleeing religious persecution.
Below is a brief excerpt:
Fewer Christians fleeing persecution in their native countries have found a safe harbor in the United States in the past half decade, according to a new report from a pair of Christian nonprofits, which cites the effects of the pandemic and the dismantling of U.S. refugee resettlement programs during the Trump administration.
The report, titled “Closed Doors,” found the number of Christians coming to the U.S. from countries named on a prominent persecution watchlist dropped from 32,248 in 2016 to 9,528 in 2022 — a decline of 70%.
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