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Clifton Franklin was a high school football running back who 鈥� at 16 鈥� wanted to play in a big game between Louisiana rivals. His mother, however, had other plans.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it plans to resume the executions of people who are awaiting the death penalty in federal prisons, ending nearly two decades in which the federal government had not imposed capital punishment.
July 25, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala - The United States Department of Justice announced today that it plans to carry out the executions of five prisoners sentenced to death. There have not been any executions of federal prisoners since 2003 as the...
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After seeking asylum from Guatemala at a port of entry in 2017, M.C.L. and his 7-year-old son spent two days in various cells where the temperature was kept extremely cold, with only a thin blanket and a single mattress to share.
July 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥� Three fathers who were forcibly separated from their young children by immigration officials have filed administrative claims against the United States to seek compensation for the lasting harm caused by the...
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Racism affects every aspect of American life 鈥� none more so than our medical system.
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John Tanton, the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement, has left behind a legacy that spawned more than a dozen nativist organizations, driven an anti-immigrant agenda for four decades, and found friends in the White House.
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As the prosecution made its closing argument, photos of the nine people that Dylann Roof had shot to death in a Charleston, South Carolina, church appeared on the screen in bloody, gruesome detail.聽
July 17, 2019
When Samuel called his family from the immigrant prison nearly six hours away from his home in South Carolina, his 8-year-old son was angry.
鈥淧apa, are you going to come home?鈥� Angel asked his father, who was calling from Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. 鈥淚 want to be with you, in the center.鈥�
Samuel told his son he would return home soon. But he didn鈥檛 know if he could keep his promise.
鈥淚 was always afraid I would be deported,鈥� he said in Spanish during a recent interview. 鈥淚 never knew if I was staying or being deported back to Honduras.鈥澛犅犅犅�
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A small Facebook campaign predicated on keeping Confederate monuments in place has morphed into a group of more than 200 ardent, secretive separatists planning to make the South a separate nation. And Hatewatch has learned the identities of some of the group鈥檚 leaders and members.
