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2 top Trump immigration advisers linked to alleged hate groupsBy Maria Santana, CNN
Updated 9:42 PM ET, Tue April 11, 2017
... Jon Feere, a former legal policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, or CIS, has been hired as an adviser to Thomas D. Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan.
At Customs and Border Protection, Julie Kirchner, the former executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, has been hired as an adviser to Customs and Border Protection acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, said Lapan.
CIS and FAIR are think tanks based in Washington that advocate restricting legal and illegal immigration, but whose more extreme views on illegal immigration and undocumented immigrants have earned them hate group designations by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization that has been tracking hate groups since the 1980s.
The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that fights anti-Semitism, has also criticized both groups for frequently publishing the works of and collaborating with known anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers ...
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Two Trump advisers linked to hate groups (Original Post)
struggle4progress
Apr 2017
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msongs
(67,433 posts)1. you forgot jeff sessions the AG. he is linked to the republican party and formerly KKk admirer...
until he found out they smoked pot that is
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)2. Also linked to Republican party.
But that sounds redundant!
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Rincewind
(1,205 posts)4. Only two?
I thought it was all of them.