US Veteran Adopted an Orphan From Iran — Now ICE Is Trying to Deport Her
A woman adopted as an orphan from Iran by a U.S. military veteran is facing deportation by ICE despite having no criminal record and having lived in America for decades. She fears being sent to Iran, a country she has no connection to, where her father's U.S. military service and her Christian faith could put her in mortal danger. The case highlights the human complexities at the intersection of immigration enforcement and military families, arriving as ICE operations expand nationwide and the U.S. simultaneously threatens military action against Iran.
Read Full Story at NPR NewsReligion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
— James 1:27
An American veteran took in an orphan from a hostile land and raised her as his own — the very definition of the religion James describes. That she now faces deportation to the country her father served against raises the deepest questions about what a nation owes those who were welcomed within its borders.