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Despite Findings Of 'Negligent' Care, ICE To Expand Troubled Calif. Detention Center
A previously confidential report obtained by NPR found major failings at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, one of the nation's largest immigration detention centers.
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We're suing @ICEgov for ignoring the medical needs of detained immigrants across the US, including at California’s Adelanto Detention Center.
Despite @DHSgov finding the facility failed to meet ICE’s own standards, ICE renewed its contract for 15 years.
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Line In The Sand
A radical and growing organization of ‘constitutional sheriffs’ is promoting defiance of federal laws it doesn’t like.
Weekend Read: Waging a New War on Poverty
The movement for racial justice in America is inextricably linked to the fight for economic justice.
Florida Supreme Court issues setback for Amendment 4 supporters
The court ruled that Amendment 4‘s “all terms of sentence” include the payment of all court fees, fines and restitution.
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The #Florida Supreme Court issued a decision this morning permitting a modern-day poll tax and redefining the voter-approved #Amendment4.
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Miller Dismisses DACA in Emails, Mirroring Anti-Immigrant Extremists' Views
White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller went against many Republicans when siding with white nationalists and other extremists on the issue of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, more commonly known as DACA, emails show.
Trump’s new campaign advisor is an anti-LGBTQ extremist with history of vile hate speech
Trump's new legal advisor has a history of attacking out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg over his sexual orientation...
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The #Trump administration has made it clear time and again that it doesn't care about the rights of LGBTQ+ people. Hiring a campaign advisor known for her anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric does nothing to change that. #YallMeansAll
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SPLC Statement on Hanukkah Celebration Attacks
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“When any one of us is attacked, we are all at risk. This is a time in which the voices for good cannot be silent. Stand with the Jewish community and SPLC as we continue to challenge the rise in anti-Semitism." —SPLC's, Karen Baynes-Dunning
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Henry Harpending
Henry Harpending was a controversial anthropologist at the University of Utah who studied human evolution and, in his words, “genetic diversity within and between human populations.”
Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy
The Civil War ended 154 years ago. The Confederacy, as former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has said, was on the wrong side of humanity.
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We celebrated the removal of Confederate symbols from public spaces around the country in 2019. Since we began counting these symbols four years ago, 138 have been removed.
We'll keep fighting to #LoseTheLostCause in 2020. #SPLCYearInReview
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Racist Black Hebrew Israelites Becoming More Militant
The black supremacist wing of the Hebrew Israelite movement is spreading and its leaders are growing increasingly militant
Weekend Read: The struggle for Native American voting rights
November is Native American Heritage Month – a fitting time to honor the resistance and resilience of Native peoples, including their fight to be heard by and represented in the government that dispossessed them for centuries.
Summary Objective 10
Students will understand the contours of the domestic slave trade as part of the nation’s economic and geographic expansion. Maps to Key Concepts 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 & 10
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Want to upend your family’s comfortable, white supremacist vision of the First #Thanksgiving? Here are some resources that center the history of #Indigenous communities in North America.
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Emails Confirm Miller’s Twin Obsessions: Immigrants and Crime
Stephen Miller linked immigration to violence in emails to Breitbart News – writing of crimes committed by nonwhites that “each one [is] more disturbing than the next.”
Miller Turned to Breitbart to Promote Political Agenda
Before the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller frequently gave editorial instructions to Breitbart News, a Hatewatch review of his emails determined.
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In emails to #Breitbart editors, #StephenMiller behaves like an uncredited editor. He suggested where stories should be placed on the homepage & advised reporters how to cover certain stories related to immigration reform, #MarcoRubio & the 2016 campaign.
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Emails Detail Miller’s Ties to Group That Touted White Nationalist Writers
White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller demonstrates a connection to an anti-immigrant think tank that promoted white nationalist writers, according to emails acquired by Hatewatch.
Miller Pushed Racist ‘Camp of the Saints’ Beloved by Far Right
White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller recommended an explicitly racist novel to Breitbart News at a time when the book was obscure outside white nationalist circles, a Hatewatch investigation revealed.
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In emails to #Breitbart editors, White House #StephenMiller recommended "The Camp of the Saints," a racist novel beloved by the far right for its fictionalized account of the “white genocide” & “great replacement” myths. #BreitbartEmails
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@Hatewatch @MichaelEHayden Stephen Miller clearly believes that immigrants of color are a danger to our country & should not be allowed in — a white supremacist idea that’s become the Trump administration’s policy. He has no business in the White House. Add your name if you agree. donate.splcenter.org/20191112-steph… pic.twitter.com/28oxQq7mh9
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Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails
In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols after Dylann Roof’s murderous rampage,...
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White House adviser #StephenMiller has promoted white nationalist ideas about race and immigration for years, according to emails leaked by a former Breitbart editor to
@Hatewatch’s investigative reporter
@MichaelEHayden. #BreitbartEmails
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UPDATED: White Supremacists Caught at Emmett Till Memorial Making Propaganda Film | JFP Mobile | Jackson, Mississippi
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The newest memorial to Emmett Till — just rededicated on 10/19— is bulletproof & monitored by camera bc of the marker's history of vandalism. This a.m. a group of white supremacists was caught on film making a racist propaganda video at the site.
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She’s Fighting Cancer. Her Son Is Fighting Her Deportation.
Tania Romero worked three jobs to raise her children. Now her son, a doctoral student at Yale, is determined to save her.
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Tania’s fighting cancer from ICE detention, and she’s not alone. ICE neglects to provide proper medical care to thousands of detainees. We’re fighting back in the courts. #HoldICEAccountable
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