immigration
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Black Actors Bring Attention to Trump's Heartless Immigration Policies
Over 30 celebrities joined Maggie Gyllenhaal in a collaboration with the ACLU to release a video bringing attention to the zero-tolerance immigration policies that have resulted in the forced separation of young children from their parents. In the video, stars like Chadwick Boseman, Lena Waithe, Miguel and Thandie Newton read a letter written by Mirian,…
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'Go Back to Your Own Country': Elderly Mexican Man Beaten With a Brick During July 4 Attack [Updated]
Updated Wednesday, July 11 at 10:49 a.m. EDT: The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department has arrested a black woman who allegedly beat a 92-year-old Mexican man for bumping into her daughter. The Los Angeles Times reports Laquisha Jones, 30, was charged on Tuesday with assault with a deadly weapon for beating Rodolfo Rodriguez with a…
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This Is the America White People Wished For. This Is the America White People Want
Since the 2016 presidential election, I have read and I have heard from people—mostly white but some nonwhite—that it’s unfair to generalize about white people just because Donald Trump is now our president. The rush to defend themselves has been so unceasing that #NotAllWhitePeople has become a popular and synopsizing shorthand for that collection of…
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Judge Rules Against Trump Administration, Rejects Long-Term Detention of Migrant Families
A U.S. federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to detain migrant children and their families seeking asylum in the U.S. for indefinite periods of time. As the New York Times reports, Judge Dolly M. Gee of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles delivered the ruling, which shot down every argument offered…
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Trump Creates ‘Denaturalization’ Task Force to Pursue Deportation Against Thousands of U.S. Citizens
There’s government pork and then there’s just swine. Our posturing president, who is wasting colossal amounts of money to appeal to his rabidly anti-immigrant base, would be the latter. In June, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services quietly announced a new task force that will investigate “bad” naturalization cases, wherein the agency will hire…
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Alabama Man Arrested After Pulling Gun, Shouting 'Womp Womp' at Immigration Rally
An Alabama man was taken into custody after he pulled a firearm at a “Families Belong Together” immigration rally in Huntsville over the weekend. No shots were fired and no one was injured during the confrontation, but 34-year-old Shane Ryan Sealy was taken into custody for possessing a firearm within 1,000 feet of the protest…
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White Woman Caught on Camera Spouting Trump’s Greatest Hits, Telling Latino Man That Mexicans Are ‘Rapists’ and ‘Animals’
Another Karen white woman has been caught exposing her whole racist ass on camera, berating a Latino man and telling him that Mexicans are “drug dealers, rapists and animals” as she spouted some of Donald Trump’s greatest hits from the 2016 campaign trail. Esteban Guzman, from California, posted a video of his confrontation with Darth…
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Atlanta Mayor Sends Message to Trump That She Won’t Allow ICE Detainees to Be Housed in City’s Jails
On Wednesday, newly elected Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that she is no longer allowing city jails to accept detainees from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On the same day that the president signed an executive order that would stop the separation of children from their loved ones at the U.S. border, Bottoms signed…
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Melania Trump Doesn’t Care. Do U?
File this under “I’m not an immigrant but you are”: Deplorable First lady Melania Trump wore a cargo jacket that would better be described as “IDGAF” than “insensitive” during her “surprise” trip to Texas (doubtful, since there were painted signs welcoming her upon arrival) to visit immigrant children heartlessly separated from their parents. The back…