Month: August 2015

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 8.31
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 8.31

#Police #JusticeSystem Tweets 8.28
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#Police #JusticeSystem Tweets 8.28

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Anti-Muslim Protests on First Day at Houston’s Arabic Immersion School

Protestors denouce Arabic immersion school for kindergarten and preschool students as “anti-American.”

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#Xenophobia

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Maryland First State to Ban many types of Profiling in Law Enforcement

Per the memo, “officers in any law enforcement agency in Maryland may not consider race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity to any degree during routine police operations.”

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Judge Rules Federal Government Must Release Children From Detention Centers

The clock is ticking for the federal government to open family detention center doors and release immigrant children who are seeking asylum. In her recent ruling in Jenny Lisette Flores v. Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ordered the government to release detained children by October 23, 2015.

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In the end, Gee said the government should not hold children for longer than 72 hours unless it has proof that they are dangerous to themselves or others, or at high risk for flight. She also said that the goal should be “family reunification” and so they should be released with their parents as a first resort.

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#immigrantRights

#SayHerName Tweets 8.27
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#SayHerName Tweets 8.27

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#WDBJ #GunViolence Tweets 8.27

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 8.26
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 8.26