Why Michigan's Iraqi Christians thought Trump would spare their loved ones
Amal Hana, of Warren, Michigan, joins a protest on June 16 in Detroit against the detention of Chaldean Christians by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Tanya Moutzalias/MLive.com/AP.
(The Christian Science Monitor) Like many thirtysomethings, Alen Hirmiz has tattoos. His large tattoo of a cross and one of Jesus on each arm bear witness to his Christian faith. His sister and family are now afraid they could endanger his life.
On June 11 immigration agents detained Hirmiz in front of his shocked parents at the family’s home in suburban Detroit and sent him to a holding facility in Youngstown, Ohio. There he waited to see if he would be sent back to Iraq.
“If he enters Iraq,” his sister Alina Senawi said, “he will be killed.”
