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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Mexican government says it won't deport 11 Iraqi Christians

ASSOCIATED PRESS

8:55 p.m. January 31, 2007

MEXICO CITY – The head of Mexico's Immigration Institute said Wednesday the government won't deport or repatriate 11 Iraqi Christians detained Jan. 20 in the northern city of Monterrey.

Cecilia Romero said the detainees may be granted asylum or simply be freed and allowed to go where they want. The group of nine men, one woman and a two-year-old girl had said they were trying to reach California, where there is a sizable community of Iraqi Chaldean Christians.

The Iraqis had traveled from Madrid, Spain, and were carrying false passports when they were arrested at Monterrey's airport. None appeared on terrorist watch lists.

Chaldean Christians frequently try to enter the United States through Mexico, claiming they face persecution in Iraq.

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