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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsActing ICE Director attends annual media event of anti-immigrant hate group
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/acting-ice-director-attends-annual-media-event-anti-immigrant-hate-group-fairActing ICE Director attends annual media event of anti-immigrant hate group
Anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) held their annual media event, Hold Their Feet to the Fire, in Washington, D.C., September 5 and 6. The convening regularly brings together radio hosts, nativist hate groups and politicians.
Among the attendees was Ronald Vitiello, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On September 5, as highlighted by Americas Voice and promoted by FAIR, radio host Tom Roten interviewed Vitiello. Preceding Vitiello on Rotens program were such hate group leaders as Ric Oberlink, executive director of anti-immigrant hate group Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), and Dale Wilcox, executive director of FAIRs legal arm, Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI). CAPS and IRLI are among a network of organizations associated with John Tanton, a Michigan ophthalmologist and racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement.
Vitiello, who was a border patrol agent for 33 years and served as Deputy Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a year and half before assuming the role heading up ICE, told Roten he is hopeful to become the permanent director and the paperwork is in front of the Senate now. Speaking about the family separation policy, a program that has received bipartisan condemnation, Vitiello shrugged off that only 2,500 people were affected by that situation.
In June, Vox reported Trump administration officials said 2,342 children have been separated from 2,206 parents at the U.S.-Mexico border between May 5 and June 9. In a little more than a month, almost 5,000 people were directly affected. On August 31, the Washington Post reported almost 500 children remain separated from their families and in U.S. government-funded shelters.
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Acting ICE Director attends annual media event of anti-immigrant hate group (Original Post)
G_j
Sep 2018
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HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)1. ICE Brown Shirts - Abolish them!!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. Dammit!
Why do all these racists keep showing up at the events and galas attended by Trump administration officials? It's just the darnedest series of coincidences the world has ever seen!
G_j
(40,367 posts)3. Just the luck of the draw
I suppose..