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The Trump administration tonight showed a few more of its true colors, and they are decidedly not the colors of the rainbow.
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When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 on Liberty Island, he had no doubt about the perniciousness of the law that it was replacing. The 1924 Immigration Act, which imposed a racist quota system favoring Northern European whites, was a "cruel and enduring wrong," a "harsh injustice" and "un-American in the highest sense," he said at the signing ceremony.
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The following are SPLC articles, statements and reports about several of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members and advisers.
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Julie Kirchner, the former executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has been named chief of staff at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Mark Krikorian, the longtime head of the anti-immigrant think thank Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) took to Twitter to mock U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a freedom rider who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery over 51 years ago.
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Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s closest advisers during his campaign and his selection for U.S. attorney general, has longstanding and extensive ties to both anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim extremist groups.
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The following statement is from Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Derek Black, whose father founded the hate forum Stormfront, changed his name, publicly rejected white nationalism and cashed in a bequest from a wealthy racist—all during one long weekend in July 2013.
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Trump's national security speech came right out of the organized anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim lobby's playbook.
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Mark Krikorian, the longtime leader of the anti-immigrant movement’s leading think tank, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is scheduled to testify today before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and National Interest.
