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Trump Says He Wants to Prioritize Christian Refugees. Middle Eastern Christians in the U.S. Respond.

A prayer book in Syriac at an Assyrian church in Chicago. Photo by Tania Karas.

President Donald Trump’s recent statements that he would prioritize Christian refugees coming to the United States set up one potential constitutional challenge to his Jan. 27 executive order temporarily barring citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and cutting the U.S. refugee admissions program in half. But it also rang hollow to some Middle Eastern Christians living in the U.S.. Some told Sojourners they find the travel ban's discrimination — and Trump's assertion that it's meant to keep out Muslims — contrary to Christian teachings.

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