Texas Congressional candidate Mayra Flores’ party gleefully waved “MASS DEPORTATION NOW!” signs at their national convention in July, making clear that mass deportation is the signature issue for the GOP in 2024. It’s a promise to create a show-me-your-papers force to raid neighborhoods and workplaces, separating American families, deporting...
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El partido de la aspirante republicana a la Cámara Baja, Mayra Flores, agitó alegremente carteles que leían “DEPORTACIÓN MASIVA AHORA” en su convención nacional en julio, dejando claro que la deportación masiva es el tema central para el Partido Republicano en 2024. Es la promesa de crear una fuerza...
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Este mes se cumplen cinco años desde que un pistolero supremacista blanco que creyó la mentira de una supuesta “invasión hispana de Texas” manejó por 10 horas hasta la pacífica ciudad fronteriza de El Paso, Texas para asesinar a 23 personas inocentes que simplemente hacían su vida cotidiana. También...
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This month marks five years since a white supremacist gunman who believed the lie of a supposed “Hispanic invasion of Texas” drove for 10 hours to the peaceful border town of El Paso to murder 23 innocent people who were simply going about their daily lives. It also marks...
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Donald Trump arrancó su campaña presidencial de 2016 descendiendo por las escaleras eléctricas de la Torre Trump y llamando criminales y “violadores” a los mexicanos. Pero como ha hecho a lo largo de la última década, Trump ha descendido todavía más en su intento de deshumanizar a las comunidades....
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Even an anti-immigrant hate group seems wary about being publicly associated with dangerous “invasion” and great replacement conspiracy theories cited as an inspiration in multiple deadly terrorist attacks, as The Hill’s Rafael Bernal has highlighted. So what’s Texas GOP candidate Mayra Flores’ excuse for remaining silent when her friends...
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Donald Trump kicked off his 2016 presidential campaign by descending the escalators of Trump Tower and calling Mexicans criminals and “rapists.” But as he has done throughout the past decade, Trump has found new lows to dehumanize communities. During a campaign stop in Ohio in mid-March in support of...
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Just days after Texas Governor Greg Abbott publicly lamented that the state couldn’t shoot and kill migrants on sight at the southern border, a woman and two children tragically drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande into the state. They lost their lives just off an area of...
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Troopers at the southern border under Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star scheme have allegedly “been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat,” Houston Chronicle reported....
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“Flores must publicly and vocally reject these pernicious lies pushed by her party’s leadership or she remains complicit.” Washington, DC – Republican Mayra Flores is headed to Congress to represent Texas’ 34th U.S Congressional District for the briefest of terms before facing election for a two-year term this November...
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