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The SPLC and a broad coalition of Florida civil rights organizations sent a letter this week to the state’s congressional delegation, expressing alarm at the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census.
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In five Southern states, April is Confederate History Month, a dubious designation that’s at odds with the reckoning the region has engaged in since the Charleston church massacre by white supremacist Dylann Roof in 2015.
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President Trump is quietly curtailing access to social safety nets for our nation’s most vulnerable people.
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) decision to halt a program that provides legal information to detained immigrants is just the latest attempt by the Trump administration to ramp up a draconian immigration enforcement regime and expand the mass incarceration of immigrants.
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The SPLC is preparing to provide legal representation to approximately 50 people who were arrested at a meatpacking plant in Bean Station, Tennessee, in the largest workplace immigration raid since the George W. Bush administration.
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The SPLC filed a petition today seeking the “immediate and unconditional release” of a 15-year-old boy who has been illegally held in a juvenile prison without a court hearing that is required under Louisiana law.
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Attorneys gave closing arguments today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, concluding a five-week trial in Dockery, et al. v. Hall, et al., a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility in Meridian, Mississippi.
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With the nomination of CIA Director Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, President Trump is playing right into the hands of the radical anti-Muslim movement in the U.S. and abroad.
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The ICE raid in Tennessee on Thursday signals a return to the days of large-scale, militaristic workplace raids that needlessly shatter families, leave children without parents and send hard-working immigrants out of jobs and into the shadows.
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It was storming the night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech in Memphis, a storm so thunderous it made him jump at the pulpit.
