The State Department told me this week that persecuted Assyrian Christians, who are losing their lives at the hands of Islamic terrorists, have no mechanism of direct access to the United States.

Perhaps we did not learn the lesson of history when in a highly publicized event in May–June 1939, the United States refused to admit over 900 Jewish refugees who had sailed from Hamburg, Germany. History tells the story of what awaited these refugees upon their return to Germany.

Are not liberty and justice the great attributes of American society that we must export to the world?

Much shame on the Department of State!

Please pray for Assyrian Christians.