Biden administration finally found migrant group it doesn’t want: Religious workers |
Opinion BY CYNTHIA M. ALLEN
JUNE 25, 2023 6:31 AM
In this 1999 file photo, Rev. Edward Leung, right gives his sermon in Each Sunday, about 70 people — all first-and-second generation Chinese Americans — gather in a small Dallas-Fort Worth-area church sanctuary for worship services.
Their shared culture unites them as much as their shared faith. The majority of congregants have come from China, where Christians are not unknown to endure persecution by the government, and most were raised without any knowledge of God.
“But they have a new faith here,” their pastor, a man whose English name is Michael, tells me. “And the new faith can help [them] to become good citizens of the country.”
That’s how it’s been for Pastor Michael, who is himself a Chinese American — although the “official” American part of his identity is looking less certain for reasons well beyond his control.
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