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U.S. Prepares to Arrest Thousands of Immigrant Family Members
Some of those targeted might end up being held in hotel rooms until their travel documents can be prepared. ICE’s goal is to deport the families as quickly as possible.
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These raids are not only designed to create fear in immigrant communities, but to undermine the due process rights of those facing deportation. These raids will target people simply because they appear to be Latino.
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Accusations in a Mirror: How the Radical Right Blames Rising Political Violence on the Left
In early April, Congress held its first hearing on white nationalism since the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. What was supposed to be an opportunity to address the rising threat of far-right extremism was, at...
Brooklyn Lindsey Is The 11th Black Trans Woman Killed In The US This Year
Lindsey, who loved hair, makeup, and dancing, was having trouble finding stable employment and housing.
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#BrooklynLindsey was killed in Kansas City, MO, over the weekend. She loved dancing, rapping & dreamed of adopting a child. She is the 11th transgender woman killed this year.
Rest in power, Brooklyn Lindsey. #TransIsBeautiful #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Far-Right Extremists Are Calling for Terrorism on the Messaging App Telegram
Neo-Nazis, white nationalists and antigovernment extremists are publishing volumes of propaganda advocating terrorism and mass shootings on Telegram, a Hatewatch review of hundreds of channels on that app reveals.
Horrific detention center conditions expose Trump’s true immigration policy: unmitigated, unrelenting cruelty
A year ago, America awoke to the shocking images of children being held in cages – children who had been stolen from their asylum-seeking parents at the border by an administration that had no plan to reunite them.
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"This administration seems to have forgotten that it’s dealing with children – or that it’s dealing with human beings at all. It refuses to take responsibility for detention conditions that one observer likened to a 'human dog pound.'" — SPLC's Mary Bauer
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White Nationalist Threats Against Transgender People Are Escalating
Transphobic rhetoric, some of it violent, appears to be increasing among white nationalists and neo-Nazis as the fight for transgender rights gains visibility and public support.
June is Immigrant Heritage Month!
Every June, Immigrant Heritage Month provides people across the United States an opportunity to explore their own heritage and #CelebrateImmigrants and the diversity that forms the unique American experience. Sign up to join the fun next month!
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Many of our nation's immigrant stories are not so different from those of families who are striving to be part of the American Dream today. Celebrate the courage demonstrated by immigrant communities. Join us this #ImmigrantHeritageMonth! bit.ly/2JYdYC0 pic.twitter.com/L7zOTSgjPB
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Urgent: Congress must CUT all funding from ICE and CBP! Trump keeps asking for money so that the Deportation Force can continue arresting & detaining our loved ones! The vote could come early this week. ☎️ CALL NOW: 210-702-3059
#DefundHate #NoRaids
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Chilling Video Shows Cop Aiming Gun At Black Family After Girl, 4, Takes Doll From Store
"I'm going to shoot you in your face," a Phoenix officer shouts at a couple in front of their two children.
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A Phoenix police officer threatened to shoot an African-American couple in front of their children, because their 4-year-old carried a doll out of a store.
That's unacceptable.
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Paul Nehlen
Paul Nehlen has evolved from a nationalistic politician into one of the most high-profile advocates of terrorism in America today.
Study: Civil asset forfeiture doesn’t discourage drug use or help police solve crimes
The study by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal advocacy group, also found that as unemployment goes up, so do civil forfeiture cases.
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Civil asset forfeiture is undemocratic and unfair. We're dedicated to fighting it throughout the Deep South.
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Detained asylum seeker abused, denied medical treatment in immigrant prison
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"All I wanted when I came here was safety, security & to work. But the U.S. doesn’t open doors like it promises & ICE hurts us mentally and physically. As a child, I never imagined my life would turn out like this." — Rogelio
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SPLC sues Arizona groups for harassing churches that help immigrants
As the immigrants stepped off a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bus to receive assistance from a local Arizona church, a woman stood on church property and began shouting “fuera” (“get out” in Spanish) and “criminals” at them.
'I was so heartbroken': African American student stripped of salutatorian honor lost Ole Miss scholarship opportunity, lawyer says
Cleveland School District is facing a second lawsuit alleging racial discrimination but for Olecia James, who finished her freshman year at Alcorn State as a ROTC Cadet with a 4.0 GPA, it's about "controlling what you can control."
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This isn't the first time a white student with a lower GPA has received honors despite a Black classmate's higher scores.
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American schools can’t figure out how to teach kids about slavery
The New York state attorney general found that a teacher’s March mock "slave auction" negatively affected students.
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It's crucial that students learn the accurate, difficult history of American slavery so they can understand its legacy of racism and inequity today. #HardHistory
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Anti-LGBT
A central theme of anti-LGBT organizing and ideology is the opposition to LGBT rights, often couched in rhetoric and harmful pseudoscience that demonizes LGBT people as threats to children, society and often public health.
FBI increases focus on domestic terrorism threat: official
The FBI, focused intently for years on combating terrorism from abroad, is turni...
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At least 40 murders in the US and Canada last year were motivated by hate. The number of hate groups operating in the US rose to 1,020 — and the number of white nationalist groups doubled.
The threat of violence from the far-right is growing.
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Thousands of Immigrants Suffer in Solitary Confinement in ICE Detention
Locked for weeks or months in solitary cells, mentally ill and vulnerable detainees are plagued by anxiety, anger, depression, and suicidal impulses.
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Ilyas Muradi has spent close to 4 months in solitary confinement — which mental health & medical experts agree is torture — in an ICE detention center.
"Can you please help me?" he sobbed at the end of an interview with @ICIJorg.
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Mysterious Neo-Nazi Advocated Terrorism for Six Years Before Disappearance
“Alexander Slavros,” a pseudonymous Eastern European essayist and founder of the neo-fascist forum Iron March, no longer appears online under that alias – but his ideology, rooted in thoughts of violence, racial conquest and fascist purity, is...
Trump is lying about immigrant crime – and the research proves it
Since he began campaigning, President Trump has demonized Latino immigrants as “criminals.” He has called them “rapists,” drug dealers, “animals” and “bad hombres” who “infest our country.”
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There is no connection between crime and increases in local populations of undocumented immigrants.
But President Trump continues to lie about it in an attempt to justify his inhumane, anti-immigrant policies.
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