[B]Fox News:
[/B][I][B]Ice Deports Indonesian Man Seeking Asylum in New Jersey[/B][/I]
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[QUOTE]A Christian man who had been living in the United States for 16 years after fleeing religious persecution in Indonesia has been deported back to the country, immigration officials said.Arino Massie was deported to Indonesia on Thursday after being held at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey since last week, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Massie leaves behind his wife and a 13-year-old son, who is a U.S. citizen.
Massie was one of four Indonesian Christian men who were detained by ICE after checking in with officials in Newark. The other three men remain in detention. They all escaped religious persecution in Indonesia in the 1990s.
About 50 supporters rallied outside of the Elizabeth Detention Center on Thursday afternoon, but he already had been sent to Indonesia, NJ.com reported .
The former Metuchen resident does not have a criminal record. He was ordered deported years ago but allowed to stay in the country as long as he checked in with immigration officials periodically.[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/19/ice-deports-indonesian-man-seeking-asylum-in-new-jersey.html[/URL]
[B]nj.com:
[/B][B][I]Trump Agents Deport Persecuted Christians - What Family Values?[/I][/B]
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[QUOTE]President Trump's immigration agents just fast-tracked [URL="http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2017/06/2nd_nj_indonesian_christian_deported_after_long_ba.html"]three more persecuted Indonesian Christians[/URL] for deportation - all family men with no criminal records; longtime New Jerseyans who sought asylum here.
Rovani Wangko and Saul Timisela were put on a plane immediately after their requests to stay were denied, joining a Metuchen father who was deported last month.
A third man, Oldy Manopo, remains at the Elizabeth detention center but faces imminent deportation.
Wangko, a newlywed, didn't even get a chance to say goodbye to his wife. When she arrived at the Elizabeth detention center to visit him on Thursday, as she's faithfully done every night since he was imprisoned, "they said there's no Rovani here," Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale, a local advocate for immigrants recounted.[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/06/trump_agents_deport_persecuted_christians_what_fam.html[/URL]
[B]Christianity Today:
[I]ICE Deports Christian Who Fled Persecution in Indonesia[/I][/B]
[QUOTE][t]http://www.christianitytoday.com/images/76830.jpg?w=700[/t][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Massie and the three other men, who are still being held, are part of a [URL="https://www.ice.gov/features/100-days"]40-percent surge[/URL] in ICE arrests in the first 100 days of the Trump administration. This includes [URL="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/18/15654958/trump-immigration-arrests"]100 arrests a day[/URL] of undocumented immigrants with no criminal record.The same day the Indonesian men were arrested, the first Christian governor of Jakarta was [URL="http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2017/may/christian-governor-jakarta-guilty-blasphemy-ahok-indonesia.html"]jailed[/URL] for blasphemy, just weeks after losing a gubernatorial reelection bid. The world’s most populous Muslim country was visited last month by Vice President Mike Pence, who [URL="http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2017/april/ahok-indonesia-christian-governor-jakarta-blasphemy.html"]praised[/URL] its “tradition of modern Islam.”
But Indonesia’s reputation as a moderate country is not as accurate as it once was. CT reported in 2012 how [URL="http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2012/june/another-record-year-of-religious-violence-in-indonesia.html"]record religious violence[/URL] in Indonesia was bolstering the men’s claim for asylum. Christians make up [URL="http://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/id.html"]seven percent[/URL] of Indonesia’s nearly 260 million people.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom listed Indonesia as a “Tier 2” country in its 2017 [URL="http://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/Indonesia.2017.pdf"]list[/URL] of countries of particular concern. The Pew Research Center rated Indonesia high in both government restrictions and social hostilities in its [URL="http://www.pewforum.org/2017/04/11/global-restrictions-on-religion-rise-modestly-in-2015-reversing-downward-trend/"]2017 report[/URL] on global religious restrictions. (The report uses data from 2015.)[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2017/may/ice-deports-christian-persecution-indonesia-new-jersey-100.html[/URL]
What a load of horseshit.
Foxnews was the most official source I found, I originally found this via the article on nj.com though it's an opinion piece, the Christianity Today article was surprisingly the most well researched and written one so I popped that in too.
Fast tracking it is deliberate.
With persecution of Christians in Indonesia growing, I hope he makes it back into the US or some other western country soon.
thank goodness this family has been sent back to die-- after all, we must protect our precious [I]paperwork![/I]
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