The share went out on the morning of Sunday, August 30, linking to coverage of the proposal. Trump added no comment of his own, but the signal was unmistakable: a request that had been circulating among religious leaders and policy advocates was suddenly sitting in front of millions of his followers, and the pressure on his administration to answer it grew overnight.
Trump's August 30 Truth Social post sharing the Christian leaders' proposal. Source: Truth Social archive (trumpstruth.org).
The proposal comes from the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, which sent a formal letter to the president on Thursday, August 27. Signed by NACL founder and president Jason Rapert, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom Sam Brownback, and more than 50 state legislators, religious leaders, and civic figures, the letter asks Trump to direct the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to identify and implement lawful, secure, and appropriately expedited pathways for eligible Jewish Canadian nationals and their immediate family members who face persecution or can credibly demonstrate fear for their safety because they are Jewish.
The letter is careful to frame the ask inside existing law. It says any program should use current refugee, humanitarian, and visa authorities, keep full identity, criminal-history, medical, and security screening in place, protect family unity, and work with states, local governments, Jewish organizations, churches, nonprofits, and employers willing to help arriving families. "For generations, America has served as a refuge for people fleeing religious persecution," the letter reads. "We urge you to ensure that, consistent with federal law and the security interests of the United States, that door remains open to our Jewish brothers and sisters in Canada who need it today." Copies were also sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and congressional leaders.
The headline number in the campaign is the claim that more than 2,000 Jewish Canadians have expressed interest in relocating. That figure needs context: Joe Roberts, executive director of Jewish Tulsa, told The Canadian Press earlier in August that the Tulsa Tomorrow relocation initiative had received inquiries from roughly 800 to 900 Canadian families, representing about 2,000 individuals. Those are inquiries, not immigration applications or refugee claims, and some families may simply be gathering information. Still, Tulsa has built real infrastructure around the interest, offering eligible newcomers help that can include reimbursement for moving expenses, immigration consultations, and organized visits to introduce families to the community and employment networks. Jewish and Christian leaders in Tulsa have offered to help resettle arriving families, and Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has told the president his state would welcome Jewish families who enter the country legally.
Rapert, speaking from Israel the morning Trump shared the report, urged the president to raise the matter directly with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. "We will find out" if Canada is getting in the way of Jewish Canadians seeking to leave, he said, adding that Canada should be "embarrassed and ashamed of these perceived roadblocks."
The concern behind the letter is grounded in hard numbers. Statistics Canada recorded 788 police-reported hate crimes targeting Jewish people in 2025, about 71 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes in the country, even though Jews make up roughly one percent of Canada's population. B'nai Brith Canada, using a broader methodology that includes online incidents, documented 6,800 antisemitic incidents in 2025, and reported in July that it had already logged 27 violent antisemitic incidents in 2026, more than double the 10 it recorded in all of 2025. In March, three Toronto-area synagogues were targeted by gunfire within five days, and on August 1 a kosher restaurant in Montreal was hit in a suspected arson attack.
Ottawa says it has not stood still. On June 1, Carney acknowledged a severe surge in antisemitism and committed another $75 million to the Canada Community Security Program, which funds security infrastructure for at-risk institutions. The Combatting Hate Act received Royal Assent on June 18 and took effect July 18, creating protections against intimidating people entering houses of worship, schools, and community centers, and strengthening hate-motivated offenses in the Criminal Code.
There is also recent precedent for a president carving out a targeted humanitarian lane. In February 2025, Trump signed an executive order directing the State Department and DHS to prioritize U.S. refugee resettlement for Afrikaners from South Africa. And the administration's own posture on Canada was, until recently, the opposite of resettlement: Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, Trump's special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told The Canadian Press during a July 28 visit to Ottawa that Washington was not then considering resettling Canadian Jews, and that his priority was pressing Canadian authorities to protect them at home.
That is what makes the August 30 share significant. It does not create a program, and the White House has given no indication it has adopted the proposal. But a question that once lived among community organizations and advocates is now sitting directly in front of a president with a record of acting on targeted humanitarian priorities. The next move, if there is one, would come as a directive or eligibility framework from the White House, the State Department, DHS, or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Until then, the proposal remains advocacy with presidential attention, not an available immigration benefit.