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American Civil Liberties Union Responds to Trump’s New Mass-Deportation Instructions
On Tuesday the Trump administration revealed its new guidelines for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in the United States and at the border, allowing federal authorities to take a more aggressive stance on illegal immigration, prompting a swift response from the American Civil Liberties Union. Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project,…
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DHS Secretary Signs Memos Empowering Authorities to More Aggressively Detain and Deport Immigrants
New guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport undocumented immigrants inside the United States and at the border were signed off on by Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and released Tuesday. NPR reports that the new rules align with the executive orders President Donald Trump issued in late January, calling…
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Chicago Cop With Long Complaint History Is Heading 1 of the Busiest West Side Districts
A little over a month after the U.S. Department of Justice released findings from a yearlong study that showed the Chicago Police Department has a problem with excessive violence, racial bias and shooting people who did not pose immediate threats, a new analysis of police records shows that a busy West Side district is under…
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‘Kill All N–gers’: Va. University Investigating Racist, Hate-Filled Video
A Virginia university has launched an investigation into a disgusting, hateful video that was posted to YouTube but has since been removed because of a violation of the video-sharing site’s standards. In the video, a woman can be seen wearing a Donald Trump mask; dancing to music that promotes lynching, white power and the Ku…
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Owner of Burger King, Tim Hortons to Buy Popeyes for $1,800,000,000
Restaurant Brands International Inc., the owner of Burger King and Tim Hortons fast-food chains, is expanding its reach and entering the fried-chicken business, purchasing Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen for $1.8 billion in cash. According to Reuters, the deal is a bet by the Canadian multinational fast-food company that it can use its international reach to introduce…
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Now Everyone Wants to Bury Milo, but It Was All Good Just a Week Ago
Well, I guess it’s good to know that even supporters of racist bigots have limits, and it looks like the limit is pedophilia. On Monday, news broke that Milo Yiannopoulos, the ass-bag of all ass-bags, an editor at Breitbart and media darling of the “alt-right,” finally said something that his publisher and Republican friends couldn’t…
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Trump Makes Weird, Tone-Deaf Speech at African-American Museum
I’m really reaching my threshold with this president. On Tuesday he visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and made a tone-deaf, rambling speech. While we’ve become used to his stream of consciousness attempts at public speaking, Trump’s ability to just flat out act as if he’s not the perpetrator of…
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Trump Goes to the NMAAHC and Poses in Front of Ben Carson’s Exhibit
I wish he would cut it out. The president has been in office for a month and has already taken three vacations, and now, on Tuesday he headed to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. For what? Who knows. He’s basically acting like a tourist at this point. Press reports note…
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Over 1,000,000 Visitors to National Museum of African American History and Culture Since Opening
The National Museum of African American History and Culture has reached a huge milestone in the few months it has been opened, hitting its 1 million-visitors mark last week. The museum announced the milestone Monday, noting that it has been just a little more than four months since its Sept. 24 opening. According to the…