“I can run through a list of countries where there are religious minorities who came to the United States to be safe,” says IDC Executive Director Philippe Nassif. “The same goes Christians from Sudan,” Nassif says. “The same goes, potentially, for Coptic Christians, for the Indonesian Christians. Some of them broke the rules and did not go through the process they should have, but these were people fearing for their lives and fleeing countries that were extremely hostile to whom and what they worship.”
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