{"id":8194,"date":"2025-02-23T10:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T10:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/this-christian-convert-fled-iran-and-ran-into-trumps-deportation-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T10:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T10:17:56","slug":"this-christian-convert-fled-iran-and-ran-into-trumps-deportation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/this-christian-convert-fled-iran-and-ran-into-trumps-deportation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"This Christian Convert Fled Iran, and Ran Into Trump\u2019s Deportation Policy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She first entered a church on a visit to Turkey. She remembers feeling a sense of calm so overpowering that she purchased a small Bible. She wrapped it in her clothes and smuggled it back to her hometown, Isfahan, in central Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Artemis Ghasemzadeh\u2019s conversion from Islam to Christianity evolved over a few years starting in 2019, through an Iranian network of underground churches and secret online classes. Three years ago, she was baptized and, in her words, \u201creborn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Converting was colossally risky. While Christians born into the faith are free to practice, Iran\u2019s Shariah laws state that abandoning Islam for another religion is considered blasphemy, punishable by death. Some members of her Bible-study group were arrested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So in December, Ms. Ghasemzadeh set out for the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI wanted to live freely, to live without fear, to live without someone wanting to kill me,\u201d Ms. Ghasemzadeh, 27, said in a series of phone interviews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her journey has landed her in a migrant detention camp on the outskirts of the Dari\u00e9n jungle in Panama. She and nine other Iranian Christian converts, three of them children, are among dozens <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/americas\/us-migrants-panama-jungle-camp.html\" title=\"\">detained at the Saint Vincente camp.<\/a> Their fate remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People fleeing violent religious persecution are normally eligible for asylum. But they have been caught in the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/world\/americas\/100000009997018\/the-deportees-trapped-in-a-panama-hotel.html\" title=\"\">Trump administration\u2019s deportation push<\/a> as the president tries to fulfill a campaign pledge to close the southern border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe don\u2019t deserve this. We are in a place where we feel helpless\u201d Ms. Ghasemzadeh said. \u201cI am waiting for our voices to be heard, for someone to help us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Panama, which is separately under pressure from the Trump administration over control of the Panama Canal, has become a landing place for migrants who otherwise would have languished in detention in the United States \u2014 or potentially been released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Panamanian officials have said that U.N. agencies are helping the migrants return to their countries or seek asylum in other nations, including Panama.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6fa2cd20\">A Dangerous Conversion<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Ghasemzadeh grew up in an upper-middle class family in Isfahan. Her businessman father was religiously conservative and strict with her and her three siblings. She did not tell him about her conversion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Christianity appealed to her, she said, because its message sounded more peaceful and its rules less stringent than the version of Islam she had experienced in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The church applied extreme precautions to its underground gatherings, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said. Parishioners received one-time passwords to log into virtual meetings. In-person sermons and classes were hosted at different locations. Ms. Ghasemzadeh said she cherished her Christian community. Her older brother, Shahin, 32, also converted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2022, a women-led uprising swept across Iran, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in custody of the morality police on allegations of violating the hijab rule. Ms. Ghasemzadeh said she protested nearly every day, chanting \u201cWomen, Life, Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/25\/world\/middleeast\/iran-women-hijab-hair.html\" title=\"\">Like many women in Iran<\/a> who have stopped wearing the hijab in an act of defiance, she let her long, dark hair flow in public. The government sent her text messages, summoning her before a judge, she said. She did not show up. If convicted of violating the hijab law, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/24\/world\/middleeast\/iran-hijab-election-issue.html\" title=\"\">women can be fined.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-113ab6e3\">Journey to America<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In late December, Ms. Ghasemzadeh and her brother Shahin departed Iran, bound for the United States. She knew about Mr. Trump\u2019s promise to crack down on migrants, but said she believed that he was only targeting criminals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They went to Abu Dhabi, then South Korea and arrived in Mexico City. There, they asked around at a hotel and found a smuggler. He charged them each $3,000 and ferried them to Tijuana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There, near the border wall in the middle of the night, the smuggler pointed to a ladder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGo,\u201d she remembers the smuggler saying. \u201cClimb the wall and go, quick.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When her feet touched American soil, she burst into tears. \u201cIt\u2019s over,\u201d she said she told her brother. \u201cWe are finally here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The euphoria was short-lived. Minutes later, border agents surrounded them. They were transported to a detention facility and separated. She has not seen nor spoken to her brother since, she said. Her mother told her that he was taken to a facility in Texas, where he remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Ghasemzadeh said she repeatedly told the authorities that she was a Christian convert from Iran seeking asylum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said that \u201cnot a single one of these aliens asserted fear of returning to their home country at any point during processing or custody.\u201d Ms. Ghasemzadeh said that she was never interviewed about her asylum claim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey kept saying now is not the time, tomorrow morning,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She was shackled and put on a military plane to Panama on Feb. 12. The plane\u2019s engine roared so loudly that her ears rang. The turbulence made her nauseous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was her 27th birthday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5bba167b\">Deported<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Ghasemzadeh met nine other Iranians on the plane, all Christian converts, who remarkably shared a similar story. The group has since banded together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For about a week, they were held <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/18\/world\/americas\/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html\" title=\"\">inside a hotel under the watch of armed guards.<\/a> The New York Times has been in daily contact with her since she arrived in Panama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Ghasemzadeh, who like many Iranians of her generation is digitally savvy, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DGD_8xVMTtj\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">made a video describing their plight<\/a> and shared it with Persian news channels outside Iran. It went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After she and others refused to sign documents that would pave the way for their repatriation, they were put on buses and sent to the jungle camp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ali Herschi, an Iranian-American human rights lawyer in Washington, represents the Iranians pro bono. Mr. Herschi said his priority was to stop Panama from deporting them to Iran. Then, he said, \u201cappealing with American authorities to reverse course and allow the group re-entry to the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The jungle camp, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said, looks like a large fenced cage. The sleeping area was muggy and the migrants did not have blankets. They were given one bottle of water and told to refill it from the bathroom faucet, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her arm was swollen and red from mosquito bites and one of the children in their group, Sam, 11, had fallen and injured his ankle. Medical staff told the Iranian parents the camp did not have an X-ray machine to determine if bones were broken, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Panama has said the migrants have everything they need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Every night Ms. Ghasemzadeh scribbles Christian quotes in a small notebook. On one page, she wrote to Jesus in Persian: \u201cI am certain you can hear my voice from up there. So please help.\u201d Next to it she drew a tiny red heart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/23\/world\/middleeast\/this-christian-convert-fled-iran-and-ran-into-trumps-deportation-policy.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She first entered a church on a visit to Turkey. 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