Christians Deported from U.S.
U.S. immigration authorities have stepped up deportations, but rather than pursue illegal aliens, they have chosen to evict America’s church ministers from the country instead.
Honesty could cost Christian pastor Keith Thomas his citizenship because he cooperated with immigration officials, disclosing two minor marijuana convictions he incurred when he was a young man in England 33 years ago.
Thomas, 53, is working without pay, fearing deportation from the U.S. and separation from his family. He was denied a green card based on convictions that were expunged in 1982. Thomas told WND he has documentation to prove his clean record since the 1975 conviction and that he has always been truthful with officials, but he doesn’t understand why people who enter the country illegally are allowed to stay when he is facing the citizenship battle of his life.
“They’ve let 12 million illegals into the country, yet somebody has been doing some good, paying taxes, came in legally and has been married to an American for 27 years and has two American kids, and they’re going to kick him out?” Thomas asked. “I told the truth. Nobody called me out on my past. If I had not even owned up to my record, the government would not have been able to find any of it.”
Immigration authorities have also marked a Catholic priest for deportation to Ireland on July 1 after documentation errors left the 58-year-old missionary without paperwork he needed to remain in De Smet, S.D.
Cathal Gallagher arrived in South Dakota from Ireland 10 years ago and has since become a respected figure in his community. Now the state’s top elected officials and parishioners are pleading with immigration authorities to reopen his case and allow him to remain in the country, the Argus Leader reported.
“I wouldn’t want to stay in this country if you haven’t blessed me with the right to be in this country,” Gallagher told his home church in De Smet. “I won’t be here as an illegal.”Gallagher served the church for 22 years in Japan before he was a granted a religious visa in 1996 to work with alcohol addicts in Rochester, Minn. He was later invited to work with churches in South Dakota.
“I thought I was going to go back to Japan ... but then I fell in love with De Smet,” he said. “It’s a very simple way of life, a place where people are important. I never expected to find that in the United States.”
Following his application for residency in 2001, Gallagher was informed in 2003 that he would receive his green card. However, it was later denied in February 2006. Lawyers hired by the Catholic Church spent two years fighting to have the decision reversed, but their efforts have been without success.
Not only is America becoming increasingly atheist and agnostic, despite the polls that say otherwise, but for several decades it has become antagonistic towards the Christian faith. Islamic Imans preaching hate for America are accepted and no public official dares speak against them, but Christ and the Christian Church are increasingly being treated as enemies of the state, unwelcome here and guilty of hate speech crimes if they dare speak of their beliefs outside the pulpit.
Welcome to liberal, secular, atheist and anti-Christ America!
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