Jos茅 Vilson co-founded the collective the same year that George Zimmerman 鈥� who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin 鈥� was acquitted of murder, and #BlackLivesMatter was born.
鈥淎lexander Slavros,鈥� a pseudonymous Eastern European essayist and founder of the neo-fascist forum Iron March, no longer appears online under that alias 鈥� but his ideology, rooted in thoughts of violence, racial conquest and fascist purity, is spreading.
翱苍听, Ellis Island opened as an immigration inspection station. More than 40 percent of people currently living in the United States are among, or are descendants of, the 12 million immigrants who passed through its doors.
Since he began campaigning, President Trump has demonized Latino immigrants as 鈥渃riminals.鈥� He has called them 鈥渞apists,鈥� drug dealers, 鈥渁nimals鈥� and 鈥渂ad hombres鈥� who 鈥渋nfest our country.鈥�
For a failed perennial candidate, David Duke is casting a long political shadow.
President Trump made a speech in the White House Rose Garden today about a plan to move U.S. immigration toward a 鈥渕erit-based system鈥� that would prioritize high-skilled workers over those with family members who are already in the country.
