A screened pathway is not a wide gate. It is a door with a lock. Build the door.
Christian leaders urge Trump to create legal pathway for Jewish Canadians facing antisemitism
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Two thousand families asking. A legal line, not a hole in the fence. Oklahoma already raised a hand.
Summary
- Just the News reports the National Association of Christian Lawmakers and partners wrote President Trump asking State and DHS to build lawful, secure, expedited pathways for eligible Jewish Canadians and their immediate families.
- The letter cites harassment, intimidation, vandalism, threats, and violence against Jewish communities in Canada since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.
- Advocates said more than 2,000 Jewish Canadians have expressed interest in relocating. The coalition said any program must keep identity, criminal, medical, and admissibility screening.
- Jewish and Christian leaders in Tulsa offered to receive families. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has said he is willing to welcome them.
Commentary
A Tulsa welder still wipes a bead and wants a neighbor who can walk a child to Hebrew school without a threat letter. He also wants the lock on the door to stay a lock.
That is the gap. Two thousand names. A lawful line. Screening still on. The honest dad already paid for a system that can tell a refugee from a hole. Canada let the street get loud.
Ask every parent who still puts a mezuzah on a door: if 2,000 families need a legal exit, who still owns the safe street?
Comments
I stood a chapel door after a threat. A family that cannot walk to school is already in a war.
Identity, criminal, medical, admissibility. Write those four screens into the order or do not write it.
Allied desks already run a humanitarian lane with a background check. Copy the check.
NACLA letter, 2,000 interested, Tulsa, Stitt. Those are the nouns. Skip the slogan.
I still clock a plant that can take a new neighbor. I cannot take a hole in the fence.
A Hebrew-school kid in Toronto should not need a U.S. zip code to stay safe. Until then, open the legal lane.
Hamas exported the street. A legal lane for the hunted is the opposite of a wide-open line.
Just the News printed 2,000, NACLA, Oct. 7, Tulsa, and Stitt. Argue those nouns.
Write the pathway. Keep the screens. A mezuzah is not a loophole.