Will President Trump protect the Christian Afghan refugees who fled here to escape martyrdom?

President Trump is not shy astir defending Christianity. His bold committedness to protecting Christians from persecution is 1 crushed that astir evangelicals person voted for him successful 3 consecutive elections. While I americium grateful for his beardown basal for spiritual liberty, I’m acrophobic by his administration’s caller actions threatening Afghan Christians to self-deport "immediately" oregon look transgression prosecution, fines and deportation – to a Taliban authorities apt to termination them for their religion successful Jesus.

Recently, galore Afghan Christians who were lawfully allowed to participate the United States, who person been surviving and moving lawfully successful communities passim the United States, received letters with a stark message: "It is clip for you to permission the United States." The connection insists that the Department of Homeland Security "is terminating your parole," the ineligible mechanics that allows these individuals to beryllium safely successful the United States. "Do not effort to stay successful the United States – the national authorities volition find you… depart the United States immediately," the missive concludes.

Similar letters were seemingly sent to hundreds of thousands of others who entered the U.S. lawfully successful caller years. But nary lawsuit is arsenic troubling arsenic Afghan Christians, for whom deportation would apt mean martyrdom. Persecuted religion watchdog Open Doors classifies Afghanistan arsenic among the 10 astir unsafe countries for Christians. The concern for Christians has deteriorated since the Biden administration’s calamitous 2021 withdrawal that near the Taliban successful power.

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Of course, President Trump himself surely did not draught this letter, and I fishy it was sent truthful broadly by leaders wrong the Department of Homeland Security without considering the afloat ramifications. As the medication hears from blimpish evangelical leaders similar Franklin Graham, I americium praying President Trump volition override whoever made the determination to nonstop these letters and let Afghan Christians to stay lawfully successful the United States. At slightest agelong capable to taxable and person just adjudication of asylum requests, oregon until Congress passes the Afghan Adjustment Act, a measure co-led successful the past Congress by Senator Lindsey Graham, that would let Afghans with parole to use for imperishable ineligible presumption truthful agelong arsenic they wide stringent vetting processes.

President Trump is perfectly right, of course, to prioritize borderline security, and astir evangelical Christians are thankful for the speedy advancement helium has made to unafraid our borders. Likewise, astir each evangelical Christians are gladsome that immigrants convicted of convulsive crimes are being deported.

But evangelicals besides hold with President Trump erstwhile helium praises ineligible migration of individuals who travel "with emotion for the country." Afghans and others denied spiritual state overseas emotion this state profoundly – and surely should not beryllium expelled from it now. Likewise, evangelical Christians privation the U.S. to support its doors unfastened to cautiously vetted, lawfully admitted refugees, including Christians from countries similar Afghanistan and Iran who faced persecution oregon adjacent martyrdom successful their repressive countries of origin. Last year, astir 30,000 Christian refugees were resettled from the 50 countries wherever Open Doors US says that Christians look the astir terrible persecution successful the world.

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The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), my denomination, has repeatedly reaffirmed the biblical telephone to invited refugees, who are individuals lawfully admitted to the United States aft fleeing a well-founded fearfulness of persecution for reasons specified arsenic their religion, contention oregon governmental opinion. Seven successful 10 evangelical Christians, including astir two-thirds of those who voted for President Trump past November, archer Lifeway Research, the SBC’s probe arm, that they judge the U.S. has a motivation work to person refugees. As President Trump concludes a 90-day reappraisal of the exile resettlement, astir 20,000 Christians, including a fig of salient evangelical leaders, person affirmed a connection urging him to restart exile resettlement, with a peculiar interest for those persecuted for their religion successful Jesus.

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Of course, arsenic Christians, we affirm the dignity of each radical arsenic made successful the representation of God, not lone chap Christians, truthful we’re besides acrophobic with the wellbeing of those astatine hazard of persecution who are not Christians. But it turns retired that astir refugees resettled successful caller years person so been Christians, arsenic are astir 4 retired of 5 of those susceptible to deportation close now.

I cognize that President Trump values ineligible migration and is simply a champion for persecuted Christians. I anticipation and commune he’ll perceive to the appeals of evangelical voters, override the actions of overzealous staffers and support Afghans and others persecuted for their religion successful Jesus.