Category: Race,

Exclusive: U.S. arrests Mexican immigrant in Seattle covered by Obama program 

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U.S. authorities have arrested an immigrant from Mexico who was brought to the United States illegally as a child and later given a work permit during the Obama administration in what could be the first detention of its kind under President Donald Trump.Daniel Ramirez Medina, a 23-year-old with no criminal record, was taken into custody last week at his father’s home in Seattle by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

…Ramirez, now in custody in Tacoma, Washington, was granted temporary permission to live and work legally in the United States under a program called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, established in 2012 by Democratic President Obama, according to a court filing.

Exclusive: U.S. arrests Mexican immigrant in Seattle covered by Obama program | Reuters

Because racism. (Duh!)
…And the little fact that the only actual laws this administration respects are the fantasy ones in their own tiny little minds.

The Imperial Wizard of the KKK was just found dead near Missouri river bank

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A Ku Klux Klan leader missing since Wednesday was found dead by a river near his home in Missouri on Saturday morning. Frank Ancona called himself the imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and went missing Wednesday. 

The Imperial Wizard of the KKK was just found dead near Missouri river bank (Details)

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Tishaura Jones slams Post editorial board while declining interview 

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You complained that “decades of sustained, abject neglect by city leaders have allowed a bombed-out graffiti-covered, war-zone image to prevail.” You said you were afraid to walk your dog at night and you called for a plan to “address blight and abate the graffiti that’s killing our city.”

You just moved here. It isn’t your city, yet. And graffiti is not what’s killing it.

What is killing our city is poverty. Since you’re new and you live in a great neighborhood, you probably don’t know that the poverty rate doubled during Mayor Francis G. Slay’s 16-year tenure.

What is killing our region is a systemic racism that pervades almost every public and private institution, including your newspaper, and makes it nearly impossible for either North St. Louis or the parts of South St. Louis where African Americans live to get better or safer or healthier or better-educated.

….But what the editorial board and certain other reporters have done is nothing short of thinly veiled racism and preference for the status quo past. Something this city has had enough of.

I think there might be enough city voters who are with me and are ready to vote for that change in March and April. After we do that, you and your dog will be safer. And maybe you will consider hiring an African-American editorial writer. 

Tishaura Jones slams Post editorial board while declining interview | Local News | stlamerican.com

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Flying Home From Abroad, a Border Agent Stopped and Questioned Me … About My Work for the ACLU 

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Over all those years, government officials made their views known about this work — often in opposition, sometimes in support. But no government agent ever asked the chilling question I was asked this time: Do you understand why someone might have a different perspective about you?

Nor has any government official ever asked, as the CBP agent did: Why have you been a legal permanent resident for years without becoming a citizen? After all, there is no requirement to seek naturalization or not.

Still, I explained to the CBP agent that, in fact, my naturalization ceremony was scheduled for the next day. A short time later, he allowed me to leave, and I was able to fly home. The whole way back, I was consumed anew with thoughts about what “America” means, the vulnerability of those less privileged than I am, and the struggle in which we’re all engaged right now for this country’s values and democratic institutions.

Flying Home From Abroad, a Border Agent Stopped and Questioned Me … About My Work for the ACLU | American Civil Liberties Union

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Trump executive order: US judge temporarily halts deportations

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Protests break out at major US airports as refugees and some visa-holders are denied entry.

…The ruling from federal Judge Ann Donnelly, in New York, prevented the removal from the US of people with approved refugee applications, valid visas, and “other individuals… legally authorised to enter the United States”.

The emergency ruling also said there was a risk of “substantial and irreparable injury” to those affected.

Her ruling is not on the constitutionality of Mr Trump’s executive order.

Trump executive order: US judge temporarily halts deportations – BBC News

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Emmett Till’s accuser admits: It was all a lie 

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A white woman who accused Emmett Till of verbally and physically accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 – inflaming tensions around the murder that helped spark the civil-rights movement —  has admitted she lied, according to a new book.

Till, who was 14 at the time of his brutal death, had allegedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year-old white woman, while at a country store in Money, Mississipppi. 

During the trial, Bryant testified that Till had also made physical and verbal advances toward her, a sensational claim that worsened tensions over the case. …Bryant admits that never happened.

“That part’s not true,” she told writer Timothy Tyson.

Emmett Till’s accuser admits: It was all a lie | New York Post

Aghhhhhhhhhhhh!

Boston area academics facing bans on entering US 

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An Iranian scientist who was bound for Boston Saturday to begin working at a Harvard Medical School laboratory searching for cures to tuberculosis, Type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis is among the people from predominantly Muslim countries who have been barred entry to the United States.

Boston area academics facing bans on entering US – The Boston Globe

Mother of all that is holy…..

Spicer Has His Own Awkward And Confusing Frederick Douglass Moment

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that President Donald Trump “wants to highlight the contributions” Frederick Douglass has made to the country, without giving any indication of what those contributions were.

In a listening session Monday morning to mark Black History Month, Trump described Douglass as someone who “has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.” A reporter asked Spicer at the daily briefing what exactly Trump was referring to by way of Douglass’ contributions.”

I think he wants to highlight the contributions that he has made,” Spicer responded. “And I think through a lot of the actions and statements that he’s going to make, I think the contributions of Frederick Douglass will become more and more.”

Spicer Has His Own Awkward And Confusing Frederick Douglass Moment (VIDEO)

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Leaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination 

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A leaked copy of a draft executive order titled “Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom,” obtained by The Investigative Fund and The Nation, reveals sweeping plans by the Trump administration to legalize discrimination.

Leaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination | The Nation

Unamerican motherf*cker!
sigh….

One Hot Mess: Frederick Douglass Opens Twitter Account from Beyond the Grave to Troll President Trump

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@realFrederickDouglass: Appreciate @realDonaldTrump congrats on AMAZING job I did to secretly educate myself and other slaves while still living under slavery in Maryland. My work is finally being recognized!

@realFrederickDouglass: @realDonaldTrump, your FAKE NATIONAL SECURITY immigrant BAN goes against everything I stood for (when I was alive 122 yrs ago). A horrible mess!

@realFrederickDouglass: My abolitionist paper, The North Star, has much better coverage of me than the failing New York Times has of @realDonaldTrump! 

@realFrederickDouglass: @realDonaldTrump pretended to know who I was when he obviously has no fucking idea. VERY DISHONEST!

One Hot Mess: Frederick Douglass Opens Twitter Account from Beyond the Grave to Troll President Trump

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Senator Maggie Hassan’s Statement on President Trump’s Anti-American Immigration Ban 

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Source: Senator Maggie Hassan’s Statement on President Trump’s Anti-American Immigration Ban | Senator Hassan

What a horrid, horrid woman.

Either she still supports the ban and won’t say so because it is politically inexpedient to do so or she never supported it in the first place but was fine with playing a racist on TV if it served her political ambitions.

Either way she is a spineless, unreliable liar with no moral compass.