Next week, members of Congress will face a key decision: will they be complicit in Trump’s war on immigrants – and approve his $21.5 billion request to bolster his arsenal of deportation agents – or will they defend our history as a nation of immigrants? According to Pili Tobar,...
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Father of Medical Student and Outspoken Dreamer, Belsy Garcia After more than a year of work, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Donald Trump continues to inhumanely break families apart. This time in Georgia, ICE is currently targeting Felix Garcia, father of three, after detaining him during a routine...
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A former reserve sheriff’s deputy is facing hate crime charges after telling Louisiana authorities that he plowed his pickup truck into a convenience store because he thought its Sikh owners were Muslim. Chad Horsley, 27, was arrested Monday and charged with one count each of hate crimes, simple criminal damage to...
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Loved ones and friends of DaShawn Horne gathered in Federal Way on Saturday to celebrate his progress and thank the community. In January, Horne was attacked and beaten with a baseball bat outside an Auburn home. Prosecutors say Horne was attacked by 18-year-old Julian Tuimauga who was upset that...
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Dane County authorities say a man claiming to be a sheriff’s deputy and immigration officer assaulted a Latino man in Marshall in January, leading to three hate crime charges. A criminal complaint says Jon Holte, 59, was intoxicated when he put a “Dane County Special Deputy” badge on his...
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Two women known for uttering anti-Muslim vitriol at Phoenix-area political events were arrested Thursday after they filmed themselves and their children spouting hate speech while removing flyers and pamphlets from a local mosque. Tempe police spokeswoman Lily Duran said Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer were taken into custody around...
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The impact on Charity Grace Mofsen was immediate and visceral. Spray-painted in black on the side of the African Meeting House was “N—-r Leave” and a crudely-drawn phallic symbol. “I broke down. I was hysterical,” said Mofsen, manager of the historic building on York Street. “I cried.” The Nantucket...
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A Fort Bragg man was arrested this week for vandalizing a church in what is being described as a hate crime, the Fort Bragg Police Department reported. Officers did not find anyone inside the church when they arrived, but determined that the suspect had broken in and set off...
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The search is on for whoever defaced a statue of Jesus in Manorville. Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Hate Crimes Section detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify and find the person or people who damaged the religious statue at the Shrine of Our Lady of...
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Since the beginning of the month, the woman and her family have been at the center of public discussion and concern in connection with the arrest of an unknown SLO High School student accused of bullying and threatening her son. The suspect, who police have declined to identify because...
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