By Bob Unruh
Joe Biden delivers remarks in National Statuary Hall on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 violence at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Cameron Smith)
The Biden administration’s claims that America’s southern border is closed – even as its policies allow millions of illegal aliens flood in – has become one of his greatest misleading statements.
But there is one segment of society that is feeling the full brunt of border security: persecuted Christians.
A report at Decision Magazine documents that the U.S., with Joe Biden now in the White House, has cut the resettlement of Christians fleeing persecution around the globe by 70% – compared to 2016.
“Open Doors, which annually ranks the 50 countries in which it is most difficult to live as a Christian, and World Relief, a global Christian humanitarian organization, issued a joint report in September that in 2022 the U.S. government resettled barely one-third of the number of Christian refugees who were granted asylum in 2016,” Decision’s report said.
In fact, in 2022, Christians resettled from the most threatening 50 nations for Christian persecution were down 70% from six years earlier. The actual numbers of Christians resettled was 9,528, down from 32,248 in 2016.
Decision Magazine explained, “For example, the number of Christian refugees resettled in 2022 compared to 2016 from Eritrea (#4 on the 2023 World Watch List) was down 85%, Iran (#8) down 95%, Myanmar/Burma (#14) down 92%, and Iraq (#18) down 94%. Just 1,044 Christian refugees from those four countries were resettled last year, compared to 12,883 in 2016.”
The documentation shows that in April 2021, just after Biden took office, his appointees limited the refugee resettlement ceiling to just 15,000 for the year – an historic low.