Echoing the anti-immigrant movement’s call to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico and the anti-LGBT movement’s cries to restrict marriage to a union between a man and a woman, the GOP has released its official 2016 policy platform.
A remarkable level of vitriol has characterized the contest for president. And it’s showing no signs of letting up.
Today, SPLC President Richard Cohen joined Rep. Terri Sewell, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and others in Birmingham, Alabama, for the Congressional Forum on the Current State of Voting Rights in America. The following are his prepared remarks.
A look at the rhetoric coming from the group Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has called "a think tank for pro-enforcement immigration policies."
On Oct. 25, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was a featured speaker at a “writers' workshop” put on by the white nationalist The Social Contract Press (TSCP), according to a report from the Center for New Community. For an elected official, this is a problem.
After peaking two years ago, the number of immigrant-bashing ‘nativist extremist’ groups has fallen by almost 90%
In the end, it came down in line with prior precedent. The Supreme Court, ruling in late June on the Arizona law that set off a tsunami of ugly legislation aimed at undocumented immigrants, affirmed decades of settled law, saying the federal government — not states or cities — has the right to control immigration policy.
