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Senator Calls Trumps Denial of Shithole Comment Not True

January 13, 2018January 13, 2018 NewsEditorDick Durbin, Donald John Trump, Haiti, Illinois, immigration, politics, TWITTER INC, U.S. Democrats, U.S. Republicans, Washington, White House

A key Democratic senator who was at the Oval Office meeting on immigration said President Donald Trump’s denial that he called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries” is “not true” and that Trump made the “vile and racist” comments. “He said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist,” Senator Dick Durbin, of Illinois, who was at the meeting, told reporters Friday morning. “I cannot believe that in the history of the White House, in that oval office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president…

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Facebook to Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed

November 25, 2017November 25, 2017 NewsEditorAdam Bennett Schiff, ALPHABET INC-CL A, business, Congress, FACEBOOK INC-A, immigration, politics, Religion, Richard Blumenthal, Social Network, Technology, TWITTER INC, U.S. Democrats

request from Congress to address manipulation and meddling during the 2016 presidential election. The tool will appear by the end of the year in Facebook’s online support center, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. It will answer the user question, “How can I see if I’ve liked or followed a Facebook page or Instagram account created by the Internet Research Agency?” That’s the Russian firm that created thousands of incendiary posts from fake accounts posing as U.S. citizens. People will see a list of the accounts they followed,…

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Facebook and Google competed for anti-immigration ad dollars during the 2016 election

November 1, 2017November 1, 2017 NewsEditoradvertising, Facebook, Google, immigration

In a textbook illustration of the conflict of interest between Facebook and Google’s ostensible dedication to free speech and their ostensible espousal of progressive values, the internet giants reportedly took millions in advertising money from a major anti-immigration group at the same time as both were engaged in pro-immigration advocacy. Bloomberg reports that both companies worked with conservative nonprofit Secure America Now, which spent millions on ads on the platforms during the 2016 election. SAN’s ads, as far as they related to immigration and refugees, were execrable scaremongering, invoking the…

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How a Tokyo-Born Outsider Became the Face of Czech Nationalism

October 16, 2017October 16, 2017 NewsEditorbusinessweek, Czech Republic, Elections, Europe, Germany, Hungary, immigration, Japan, politics, prague, Religion, Social Democratic Party of Germany

Tomio Okamura’s background is about as multicultural as you can get. The son of a Czech mother and a Japanese-Korean father, he suffered racist bullying in Japan and the Czech Republic that was so severe he developed a stutter and wet his bed until the age of 14. Which may or may not help explain why his Czech political party is adamantly opposed to immigration, wants the country to leave the European Union and compares Islam to “Hitler-style Nazism.” The message is resonating: Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy may become the fourth-strongest…

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Trump Hands Democrats an Opportunity on Immigration

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017 NewsEditorCharles E. Schumer, Congress, Donald John Trump, Homeland Security, immigration, Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi, Nevada, politics, U.S. Democrats, U.S. Republicans, White House

President Donald Trump’s renewed demands for a border wall and dramatic changes to immigration laws in exchange for deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants may help Democrats by keeping the issue alive in the 2018 election year. Polls show voters side with Democrats on shielding the immigrants, known as Dreamers. By adopting a hard line, Trump is setting the stage for a prolonged fight in Congress that could help Democrats gain seats in the House and Senate. The White House on Sunday demanded “complete construction” of a U.S.-Mexico border wall…

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Trumps Empty Crackdown on Overseas Coders Doesnt Fix Tech Visas

April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 NewsEditorDonald Trump, immigration, Outsourcing

Tech leaders found yet another reason to denounce President Trump today after federal immigration officials released seemingly stricter guidelines for the country’s high-skilled H-1B worker visa program. The backlash quickly built on social media as claims circulated that the Trump administration was preparing to limit the number of visas for computer programmers. But the threat doesn’t seem likely to live up to the hype. Both critics and supporters of the H-1B program say these reports are overblown. In fact, they say, panicking about the putative changes plays right into the…