The Iraqi Christians would have to enter the US thru the southern border.
Via CNS News
The French government says it is willing to grant asylum to Iraqi Christians in the face of a jihadist onslaught against them.
“We are assisting displaced persons who are fleeing the Islamic State’s threats and seeking refuge in Kurdistan,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a joint statement this week. “Should they so wish, we are prepared to offer them asylum on our soil.”
In Washington, meanwhile, a leading religious freedom advocate on Capitol Hill slammed both President Obama and Congress Tuesday for their “silence” about the plight of Iraq’s Christians, which he said amounted to “genocide.”
“The silence in this town – in Washington – is deafening,” Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said on the House floor. “Does Washington even care?”
After seizing control of Mosul and other areas in northern and western Iraq last month, the al-Qaeda-inspired jihadist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in mid-July ordered those Christians who had not yet fled to convert to Islam, pay a Qur’an-mandated tax levied on conquered non-Muslims, or be killed.
“The ultimatum issued to these communities in Mosul by ISIS is the latest tragic example of the terrible threat facing these people – who have historically been an integral part of the region – by jihadist groups in Iraq as well as Syria and elsewhere,” Fabius and Cazeneuve said in their statement.
“France is outraged by these brutalities, which it condemns in the strongest possible terms.”
In his speech, Wolf highlighted the important place Iraq holds in the origins of Judeo-Christianity, noting that, after Israel, the Bible contains more references to places in Iraq than any other country.