Hatewatch Headlines 10/2/2017
DHS to invade immigrants’ social media accounts; ICE targets ‘sanctuary cities’ for arrests; Islamophobes have a voice in Trump White House; and more.
RealTime Politics: Trump orders Homeland Security to invade all immigrants’ social media accounts.
Los Angeles Times: ICE arrests hundreds of immigrants in ‘sanctuary cities’ around the nation, California.
Reuters: U.S. will phase out program for Central American child refugees.
Salon: Anti-Muslim bigotry has an official voice in Donald Trump’s White House.
Think Progress: FBI testimony demonstrates just how serious the white nationalist threat is.
Raw Story: Evangelicals, pastors urge Trump to combat the alt-right.
AlterNet: White nationalists terrorize Houston book fair in largest show of force since Charlottesville.
Knoxville News (TN): Protesters outnumber, heckle white-supremacist Stormfront gathering near Crossville.
Ars Technica: Reddit’s campaign against hate speech mostly worked, as users started choosing words carefully.
CNN: Hate groups on Facebook: Why some get to stay.
The Atlantic: The GOP’s muted response to Roy Moore’s anti-Muslim bigotry is disturbing.
Media Matters: Daily Caller publishes, then deletes, anti-Semitic video attacking Jewish journalist.
Pix 11-TV (New York): Transgender teen viciously beaten by schoolmates at Newark high school.
The Sheridan Press (WY): Nebraska man’s assault on patron at bar leads to hate-crime report.
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI): Old KKK march photo from Madison mischaracterized by conservative author.
Vice: An anti-immigration protest by Canadian ‘ultra-nationalists’ closed a Quebec border crossing.
Right Wing Watch: Hannah Scherlacher falsely accuses the SPLC of smearing her.