Haven't done a "look at all the racist things happening" collection in awhile. Here's a roundup of some of the things from the last week:
Some good news
ICE releases mother it detained for months far away from 7-year-old daughter
www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/07/ice-releases-mother-it-detained-four-months-far-away-from-7-year-old-daughter/?utm_term=.6a9fb43ce6be
On Tuesday, immigration officials appeared to bend halfway in favor of the family’s lawyers, abruptly releasing the mother from custody at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. The girl, however, remains in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement in Chicago, and the pair are still awaiting reunification, the ACLU said. It is unclear when the mother and daughter might be reunited.
“We are thrilled that the mother has been released and look forward to the government immediately reuniting her with her daughter,” Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement. “But there remain many other families who have been separated, and we will continue to attack this horrific family separation practice.”
The woman’s release came under orders “from up top” in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Gelernt told the Associated Press. A spokesman from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday night.
“This case hit a nerve for a lot of people because its so unconscionable what this government has done … to separate a mother from her daughter for no reason at all,” Judy Rabinovitz, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, told The Washington Post in an interview Wednesday morning. “Obviously DHS was feeling some pressure.”
Last week’s lawsuit drew national headlines and intense scrutiny from immigration advocates. The case underscored Trump’s crackdown on immigration and marked a shift from previous administrations, which detained families but did not forcibly separate parents from their young children, the ACLU said in its lawsuit.
Now for the not so good stuff:
Legal stuff
Matt Cameron 🗽 #CleanDREAMActNow
*@matt*_cam
1/ BREAKING: @TheJusticeDept has just authorized immigration judges to deny #asylum applications without a hearing. Like most Trump-era administrative violence, it has been unnoticed & unreported.
sound of Scotch pouring into glass
THREAD
#TrumpImmigration #HereToStay
2/ Important context: As head of @TheJusticeDept, the Attorney General has final say over all cases before the administrative #immigration courts. AG may snatch a case away from the Board of Immigration Appeals anytime and decide it himself by directing BIA to refer it to him.
[rest of thread: twitter.com/matt_cam/status/970863029276602368]
More Qasim Rashid, Esq. Retweeted Matt Cameron 🗽 #CleanDREAMActNow
Read & RT this thread. While WH demands “Due Process” for white men who serially abuse women—the DOJ just eliminated the right to due process for asylum applicants facing life or death situations.
This is all in addition to cancelling DACA. Media has remained largely silent.😐
And
Lois Beckett
*@loisbeckett*
“White male journalists are particularly vulnerable to the idea that these guys are fighting for free speech." Vice's Elle Reeve talks to @OntheMedia about mistakes journalists make when covering white supremacists: www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/how-should-the-media-cover-americas-racist-extremists
illustration of how the rhetoric is just that - not based on facts and used to fearmonger:
Trump says American workers are hurt by immigration. But after ICE raided this Texas town, they never showed up.
www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/trump-says-american-workers-are-hurt-by-immigration-but-after-ice-raided-this-texas-town-they-never-showed-up/2018/03/04/8ce16362-1d65-11e8-ae5a-16e60e4605f3_story.html?__twitter_impression=true
CNN
*@CNN*
A Florida middle school teacher secretly ran a white supremacist podcast. In a statement through her attorney, she claimed her comments were "political satire and exaggeration" and that the persona was a "hobby."
And
Deadly Connection: Neo-Nazi Group Linked To 3 Accused Killers
www.npr.org/2018/03/06/590292705/5-killings-3-states-and-1-common-neo-nazi-link?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180306
At first glance, five killings in three states since last May appeared to be unrelated, isolated cases.
But a common thread is emerging. Three young men have been charged, and all appear to have links to the same white supremacist group: the Atomwaffen Division.
Atomwaffen is German for "atomic weapons," and the group is extreme. It celebrates Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson, its online images are filled with swastikas, and it promotes violence.
Florida Killings: Radical Islam And The Far Right, Under One Roof
NATIONAL SECURITY
Florida Killings: Radical Islam And The Far Right, Under One Roof
One of the group's videos shows young men, wearing scarves over their faces and camouflage, firing rifles during military-style training. The video begins with group members shouting in unison, "Race War Now," and concludes with the tag line, "Join Your Local Nazis."
"Atomwaffen no doubt takes some of the white supremacist rhetoric to another level. The views that they articulate are white supremacists on steroids," said Joanna Mendelson, who follows extremist groups for the Anti-Defamation League in Los Angeles.
"And what is the change they want to see? Real-world violence. Real-world apocalyptic violence," she added. [...]
And
Ryan J. Reilly
@ryanjreilly
A white supremacist caught in a FBI sting wanted to do something “in the spirit of Dylann Roof” on a “big fucking scale.” He bought a gun from a guy he thought was an Aryan Nations member. Under his plea deal, he’s unlikely do much prison time.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/white-supremacist-ben-mcdowell-fbi-doj_us_5a9f0cb2e4b0e9381c131eb9
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Hate groups using similar online recruiting methods as ISIS, experts say
abcnews.go.com/US/hate-groups-similar-online-recruiting-methods-isis-experts/story?id=53528932&cid=social_twitter_abcn
Some alt-right and white supremacist groups are using the same online recruiting tactics pioneered by ISIS, al Qaeda and other foreign-based extremist groups to grow their ranks.
John Cohen, an ABC News consultant and former acting Homeland Security undersecretary, notes that many of these groups – both foreign and domestic – appeal to the same type of person in the same type of way.
"All of these extremist groups promote an agenda that focuses on fighting those who are victimizing them and that resonates with these individuals who all believe that they have personally been victimized in their own lives," Cohen said in an interview.
And
Tennessee school removes Confederate flag, lynching murals
edition.cnn.com/2018/03/05/us/hanging-confederate-mural/index.html
And
Cornell student facing deportation after sucker-punching black man in ‘come fight us, n*gger’ attack
www.rawstory.com/2018/03/cornell-student-facing-deportation-sucker-punching-black-man-come-fight-us-ngger-attack/#.Wp7S1SCn_NY.twitter
And
Bodycam Video Shows North Carolina Officer Beating Black Man Accused Of Jaywalking
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/north-carolina-officer-beats-black-man-accused-of-jaywalking-in-bodycam-video_us_5a9990ace4b0479c02520ffb
And
‘I’m white. I can kill you — nothing will happen’: Woman attacks black actor with beer bottle after racist tirade
www.rawstory.com/2018/03/im-white-can-kill-nothing-will-happen-woman-attacks-black-actor-beer-bottle-racist-tirade/