June 22, 2019
By Tom Gjelten and Amita Kelly
Immigration authorities (click here) have rounded up nearly 200 Iraqis in recent weeks, and the Trump administration is now under heavy pressure to hold off moves to deport them.
Many of those currently detained are from the minority Chaldean Christian community, which faces severe persecution in Iraq.
U.S. immigration authorities say the detained Iraqis have criminal records, but their families and supporters say many have already served time or paid their fines and that they would face persecution if sent back....
This man wasn't born in Iraq. He wasn't provided insulin? Food? A way to find help by the USA in Iraq? There is still soldiers there and this is how the USA treats a Greek man who was decided to be UNWORTHY of breathing the air over the USA?
Who is going to be held responsible for this man's death? This is gross legal malpractice and human rights violation. This man was doomed before he set a foot on Iraqi soil. There was no guessing that he was going to perish at the hand of someone. He didn't even know the language. Anyone with mental health problems in many areas of the world is not tolerated.
Who did this?
He became suicidal although never acted on those feelings. He died of his diabetes perhaps before he could carry the task out.
Is there still a Chaldean Christian Church in Iraq?
Location (click here): Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, France, USA, Canada
Head: Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly (born 1927, elected 2003)
Title: Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans
Residence: Baghdad, Iraq
Membership: 419,000
Website: www.st-adday.com
Why weren't these people notified about him and his status? There is no excuse for what happened to him in the USA or Iraq.
The family needs to sue Donald J. Trump for the gross cruelty, human rights violation and gross injustice that has occurred with this man. It is far more than a disgrace.
August 8, 2019
By Merrit Kennedy and Jane Arraf
Jimmy Aldaoud (click here) was deported from the U.S. in June to Iraq, a country that his family said he had never set foot in. Two months after arriving there, they got word that he was found dead in Baghdad.
Aldaoud was born in Greece, his sister Mary Bolis said, after his family fled Iraq. He didn't speak Arabic.
He was 41 when he died, and arrived legally in the U.S. in May 1979 when he was a year old, his lawyer Chris Schaedig said. He lived near Detroit until he was put on a plane to Najaf by U.S. federal officials.
"I begged them, I said, 'Please, I've never seen that country, I've never been there.' However, they forced me," Aldaoud said in a video recorded shortly after his arrival in Iraq, which was posted on Facebook by a family friend....
