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The red-bearded man with a gun on his hip in this video says he "busted right through the door" of a Phoenix church that's sheltering asylum seekers today. You can hear him scream "America first" afterwards. @phoenixpolice showed up quickly but apparently made no arrests.
That video also shows members of the group Patriot Movement AZ. For most of the past week, the group has been harassing people at churches that have taken in asylum seekers. Their founder talked about it on a far-right podcast a week ago. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
Two women with ties to the same group, Patriot Movement AZ, were arrested in March after they livestreamed themselves going onto the grounds of a Phoenix-area mosque. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…
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NEWS: Today, for the first time, the @splcenter is adding male supremacy organizations to our hate group list. splcenter.org/news/2018/02/2…
A few more numbers from @splcenter's latest hate group count:

- 954 active hate groups in the US
- 4 percent increase in the number of groups from the previous year
- 121 neo-Nazi groups — marking the largest growth within the white supremacist movement splcenter.org/news/2018/02/2…
As always, you can drill down on the data for US hate groups by state or ideology with @splcenter's interactive Hate Map. splcenter.org/hate-map
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Top Myths About #Asylum and why you should care:

Myth: Asylum seekers should file at US consulates in their home countries.

Reality: Asylum can only be sought at the border or inside the US. US consulates do not accept asylum applications.
Myth: Asylum seekers must present themselves at a port of entry.

Reality: The law (8 USC 1158) specifically says a person may apply for asylum whether they enter legally or not.

They can be technically prosecuted for unlawful entry, but that doesn't prevent asylum.
Myth: Asylum is only for political persecution, not for fear of gangs and terrorists.

Reality: There is NO requirement in the law that an asylum seeker's fear be politically based.

I've won many gang and terrorist related cases.
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UPDATE: The Presidential proclamation barring certain non-citizens from seeking #asylum after crossing the Southern border is out. How will they limit it to the #MigrantCaravan? How much more illegal can this thing get?

I haven't even read this, so let's get through ittogether
(This thread is going to be a sequel to yesterday's on the "final interim rule" rushed into effect in anticipation of this proclamation, so you might want to read that one first.)

These #s appear to be the entire justification for the proclamation, and they badly need context. They may sound scary if you're new to the issue, but check out the overall historical picture & tell me this is a natl. emergency worthy of suspending a 4,000 year-old legal right
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Today the LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy 2018-2020 launched. It’s the world's first, and the culmination of a year and a half of work. I chaired the oversight committee. There are 59 actions. It's hard to capture all of them on Twitter, but let me tell you about some.
Implement LGBTI+ training for service providers including; school principals, teachers, guidance counsellors, boards of management, family resource centres, judiciary, legal services, traveller service providers, disability service providers, employers, sports bodies, and more.
Reinstate the role of LGBTI+ liaison officers in an Garda Síochána with a minimum of two trained officers in every Garda division.
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As a fmr immigration attorney let me be unambiguously clear. Crossing a boarder to claim asylum is *not* a crime; no under US or international law. Any child separated from a parent under that pretext is done so in direct contravention to the laws of the USA. ⚖ THREAD Pls RT.
If you came to the US without permission to apply for asylum, youmetjod of entry, whether legal or illegal *should* in no way effect your application process. Illegal entry is not a ground of inadmissibility for asylum applicants.
Unlike many other categories of applicants for immigration benefits, ppl seeking asylum in the US are not barred by having made an illegal entry; for example, sneaked across the U.S. border or overstaying a valid visa (one of the top ways people are in the country illegall).
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1/ BREAKING: @TheJusticeDept has just authorized immigration judges to deny #asylum applications without a hearing. Like most Trump-era administrative violence, it has been unnoticed & unreported.

*sound of Scotch pouring into glass*

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#TrumpImmigration #HereToStay
2/ Important context: As head of @TheJusticeDept, the Attorney General has final say over all cases before the administrative #immigration courts. AG may snatch a case away from the Board of Immigration Appeals anytime and decide it himself by directing BIA to refer it to him.
3/ Here is the 2014 BIA holding--upholding precedent from 1989--which the AG was so intent on getting to his own desk. It may not mean much to anyone who had the good sense not to go to law school, but take a shot. (No, really: *take an actual shot* and give it a try.)
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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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