Private searches make it easy to express taboo thoughts
The most racist places in America, according to Google – The Washington Post
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Category: Race,
Babies and children are listed in Homeland Security’s immigrant database of alleged criminals
A program intended to assist victims of crimes committed by immigrants mistakenly lists names of small children in immigration detention.
WTF?!
Judge cites Trump’s comment in “sanctuary city” ruling
For the third time in two months, a federal judge has knocked down an immigration order by President Trump and used Trump’s own language against him.
In a ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Orrick quoted Trump to support his decision to block the president’s order to withhold funding from “sanctuary cities” that do not cooperate with U.S. immigration officials.
Trump called the sanctuary cities order a “weapon” against communities that disagree with his preferred immigration policy, Orrick said. The judge also cited a February interview in which he said the president threatened to cut off funding to California, saying the state “in many ways is out of control.”
…Orrick’s preliminary injunction against the sanctuary cities order will stay in place while the lawsuits by San Francisco and Santa Clara work their way through court.
The government hasn’t cut off any money yet or declared any communities sanctuary cities. But the Justice Department sent letters last week advising communities to prove they are in compliance. California was informed it could lose $18.2 million.
Orrick said Trump cannot set new conditions on spending approved by Congress.
Even if the president could do so, those conditions would have to be clearly related to the funds at issue and not coercive, as the executive order appeared to be, Orrick said.
Judge cites Trump’s comment in “sanctuary city” ruling – CBS News
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Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions ramp up their crusade against black and brown Americans
Remember when Trump promised to “take care” of African-Americans? Sessions is now in charge of carrying that out.
…Sessions’ claims are based on a combination of half-truths and outright lies. There is no crime wave or “plague of violence” in the United States. In fact, crime is at or near record lows in most places, including President Trump’s home city of New York. Sessions also, by implication, is continuing with the disproved claim that there’s a war on America’s police (in reality, being a police officer is one of the nation’s safest jobs) or are somehow unfairly restrained by being forced to show minimal respect for the civil liberties of the Americans they supposedly “protect and serve.”
…Sessions’ promise to further unleash America’s police on the “inner city” in order to make sure that “every neighborhood” is “safe and peaceful” reflects a larger set of values and political priorities.
The president’s inner circle of advisers includes an alarming number of apparent white supremacists and alleged neo-Nazi sympathizers, who view people of color as a threat to white, Christian American identity.
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions ramp up their crusade against black and brown Americans – Salon.com
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America’s forgotten black cowboys
“I bet you nine out of 10 people in this country think that cowboys were all white – as I did.”
In the real Old West, as opposed to the film depiction, black cowboys were a common sight.
…Not only did Hollywood ignore black cowboys, it plundered their real stories as material for some of its films.
The Lone Ranger, for example, is believed to have been inspired by Bass Reeves, a black lawman who used disguises, had a Native American sidekick and went through his whole career without being shot.
America’s forgotten black cowboys – BBC News
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Sessions Ushers In A New Kind Of Federalism
We are witnessing the spread of a progressive form of federalism under a GOP-led government.
Has Jeff Sessions Ushered In A New Kind Of Federalism? | The Huffington Post
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Miami lawmaker resigns over racial slur scandal
Florida state Sen. Frank Artiles resigned from the Florida Legislature on Friday, consumed by a scandal that erupted three days earlier over a diatribe of insults the Miami Republican unleashed against two lawmakers at a Tallahassee bar.
Miami lawmaker resigns over racial slur scandal
Justice served.
The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Calls Herself Black
The last story you will ever need to read about Rachel Dolezal.
mmmhmmm.
Hawaii Lawmakers Fire Back at Sessions for ‘Island in the Pacific’ Comment
Hawaii’s two Democratic senators fired back at Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday for saying that a federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s immigration order hailed from “an island in the Pacific.”
Hawaii Lawmakers Fire Back at Sessions for ‘Island in the Pacific’ Comment – NBC News
oy….
A 23-year-old ‘Dreamer’ sues the Trump administration over his deportation to Mexico
He is thought to be the first immigrant protected by the DACA program to be deported under the Trump administration.
A 23-year-old ‘Dreamer’ sues the Trump administration over his deportation to Mexico – LA Times
Figures. Trump doesn’t deliver on his agreements, why should the federal government honor any of their own deals while he is in office?
Officers rue the return of US ‘war on drugs’
Then as violent crime rates fell under George W Bush and prisons became clogged, prosecutions eased. The war on drugs fell out of fashion. Barack Obama called it “unproductive” and sent memos guiding prosecutors away from pursuing low-level offenders.
Now a new administration looks set to turn back the clock. Attorney General Jeff Sessions likes to reminisce about the aggressive law enforcement of the 80s and 90s and recently labelled cannabis “only slightly less awful” than heroin.
…Between 1980 and 2015, the number of people in prison for drug offences increased more than 10-fold, from 40,900 to 469,545, and the average sentence more than tripled, according to data compiled by the Sentencing Project. The majority of them were low-level offenders with no criminal record.
…A 2013 study published in the British Medical Journal found that since 1990 US drug prices nationwide had fallen while purity increased. And a 2012 study by the University of Florida found that the threat of severe punishment was “generally weak and insignificant” at deterring drug crime or lowering addiction rates.
Officers rue the return of US ‘war on drugs’ – BBC News
It is beyond hard to belive that Sessions or any of his cronies could possibly be that stupid. They the War on Drugs didn’t do the country any favors but they simply seems not to care. Just another way for the old, rich, white guys to beat down and separate everyone else.
Incompetent, asinine, racist hacks.
‘It Is Better To Die Than Stay In Libya:’ Libya’s Slave Markets Remind Us of Flaws in EU Migration Plans
New revelations about slave markets in Libya are just the latest in a string of horrors in the troubled state.
Dear ghod….
This man’s deportation is testing Trump’s murky stance on DACA
A dispute over whether the US government deported an undocumented immigrant with protected status heated up Wednesday, as the Department of Homeland Security released further details about the case.
This man’s deportation is testing Trump’s murky stance on DACA – CNNPolitics.com
sigh….
So now DHS is lying or at least in a pissing he said, she said match with a young person? GRrrrreat. Way to lower the bar to kindergarten tantrum tactics assholes.
Trump’s new rules could swamp already backlogged immigration courts
Immigration courts already juggle more than a half-million cases and need to take on thousands more.
Trump’s new rules could swamp already backlogged immigration courts
Of course they do.
Because it would impossible for this pack of idiots to have an actually functioning section of the government on their watch.
Frank Artiles, Florida senator, under fire for using racial slur – CBS News
Republican Sen. Frank Artiles used racial slurs and insults in a private after-hours conversation with African-American colleagues
Frank Artiles, Florida senator, under fire for using racial slur – CBS News
Screw your apology, ass-wipe.
If you speak like that, you are showing that you think like that. Period.
A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight
Videos posted to Twitter and Facebook show a man being pulled out of his seat and down the aisle of the plane by three security officers.
A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight
The airline employees and individual security officers involved should all be arrested and charge with aggravated assault.
United Airlines is a bigoted dumpster fire and every new story about them just brings into clearer focus what a bunch of racist, misogynist, inhumane pricks the airline has become.
If they don’t change their culture they deserve financial failure.
DHS won’t rule out arresting crime victims, witnesses
Want some of the feces that passes for justice in this country? Show your papers!
Muslim couple sues US’ United airlines after being kicked off flight
An attorney for the couple said they think “inherent bias” prompted flight crew members to kick the Shebleys off the United Flight after Eaman asked for assistance with a child booster seat.
Muslim couple sues US’ United airlines after being kicked off flight | The Indian Express
United Airlines is a bigoted inhumane shit show.
Huge march for immigration attracts thousands in Dallas
Known as Immigration Reform Mega March, people brought signs and waved American flags in what was a peaceful protest
Huge march for immigration attracts thousands in Dallas – CBS News
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U.S. Man Is Suing After ICE Holds Him in Jail for 3 Weeks While Trying to Deport Him
Guatemalan-born Rony Chávez Aguilar tried to tell agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Chicago Field Office (ICE) that he has been a U.S. citizen for 16 years, but they didn’t believe him.
U.S. Man Is Suing After ICE Holds Him in Jail for 3 Weeks While Trying to Deport Him
While a criminal is not the most sympathetic victim, this is still sort of insane. ICE is an out of control gestapo.
“Imagine calling out your white male co-workers for not listening to women of color. Now, imagine you work at the state Capitol.”
Nicely done, Minority Leader. Nicely done.
Undocumented Husband of Indiana Trump Supporter Deported to Mexico
Helen Beristain voted for Donald Trump even though she is married to an undocumented immigrant.
In November, she thought Trump would deport only people with criminal records — people he called “bad hombres” — and that he would leave families intact.
“I don’t think ICE is out there to detain anyone and break families, no,” Beristain told CNN affiliate WSBT in March, shortly after her husband, Roberto Beristain was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
On Wednesday, Beristain was proven wrong as ICE split her family across two countries. Roberto Beristain, 44, was deported back to Mexico….
In an interview with the South Bend Tribune, she recalled her husband saying, ” ‘He’s going to get rid of the Mexicans.’ ” She told the Tribune her response at the time was that Trump would only deport the “bad hombres.”
Undocumented Husband of Indiana Trump Supporter Deported to Mexico | FOX40
Helen Beristain, you are one stupid bitch. Your own vote got your husband deported. He might not have deserved this but you certainly do.
White Parents Who Won’t Choose Black Schools
They don’t want their kid to notice her whiteness in Pre-k and then find out while addressing that question, that while they already own great books about diversity, the only children’s books specifically about whiteness are published by the KKK. They don’t want their child to ask them why Quintavious’s sister says she doesn’t like white people. They don’t want to have to wonder when the teacher calls, if they are getting extra attention because white parents are often perceived as overbearing. They want diversity, just not too much.
Why White Parents Won’t Choose Black Schools | The Huffington Post
Sigh….
Cashier tells girl, ‘we have lots of other dolls that look more like you.’ Her response is priceless
A [caucasian] 2-year-old defended her choice to select a black doll when a cashier told her “we have lots of other dolls that look more like you,” the girl’s mother shared on social media.
Cashier tells girl, ‘we have lots of other dolls that look more like you.’ Her response is priceless
heh
Forty-one years ago, the US took in Vietnamese refugees and it was a good thing
Of course, today’s refugee crisis is very different from the southeast Asian migration of the 1970s. There are far more countries, causes, and powers involved today, and the nearly 5 million (and counting) Syrian refugees alone far outnumber the 1.3 million who left Vietnam.
All the same, as Greece turns away Syrian migrants, its Balkan neighbors close their borders, and thousands of asylum-seekers die at sea, it’s worth remembering that decades ago, despite widespread public opposition and xenophobia, a country opened its doors to those seeking safe, dry land. And they, in turn, left a lasting mark on a new home
Forty-one years ago, the US took a big gamble on Vietnamese refugees — Quartz
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