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Hatewatch Headlines 5/1/2018

Caravan asylum seekers turned away; CBP targets humanitarian group; ICE falsely labeling immigrants as gang members; and more.

Mother Jones: Asylum seekers from Central American caravan are being turned away at the U.S. border.

The Intercept: Border Patrol targets prominent humanitarian group in Arizona as criminal organization.

Media Matters: ICE is wrongly designating immigrants as gang members to deport them, thrilling conservatives.

Think Progress: Law enforcement focused on counterprotesters, not neo-Nazis, before Tennessee rally.

Al Jazeera: Fears of violence lurk as cities gear up for May Day events, and right-wing counter-protests.

Vox: The racial demons that help explain the continuing for Trump among evangelicals.

Salon: Right-wing religious nationalists launch ‘Project Blitz,’ a covert and dramatic new power play.

Washington Post: University of Virginia bans organizer of ‘Unite the Right’ rally from its campus.

Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA): Alt-right provocateur James Allsup makes WSU appearance, backs Identity Evropa.

Right Wing Watch: 12 far-right candidates working to pull the GOP to the fringe in 2018.

Chronicle of Higher Education: The ugly truth about being a black professor in America.

The Hill: Roy Moore files lawsuit against accusers, claiming political conspiracy against him.

The Guardian: Woman behind the term ‘incel’ says angry men hijacked her word ‘as a weapon of war.’

Dallas Morning News (TX): 57 white-supremacist gang members charged in North Texas drug-trafficking conspiracy.

Chicago Tribune: Five guns taken from teen who wore T-shirt promoting neo-Nazi ‘Patriot Front.’

Niagara Gazette (NY): Police make arrest in racially motivated assault on student outside local tavern.

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