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Trump’s ‘Smart and Strategic’ Immigration Approach: Everyone Is Deportable https://rewire.news/article/2017/02/21/trumps-smart-strategic-immigration-approach-everyone-deportable/ … by @TheTinaVasquez

Trump Administration Will Issue New Guidance On Transgender Students https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/trump-administration-will-issue-new-guidance-on-transgender?utm_term=.te9Ov5Mvd#.klmgMDbM2 … by @dominicholden

Montgomery’s mayor will honor an unsung civil rights hero by naming March 2 "Claudette Colvin Day” http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2017/02/21/claudette-colvin-honored-city-council-tonight/98197322/ … by @yawn_meister

"The people of Flint didn’t enjoy equal protection,” says Michigan Civil Rights panel http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-michigan-civil-rights-panel-flint-water-crisis-racism-20170218-story.html … by @paulegan4

Exponential rise in hate crimes against Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders—3x higher in LA 2014-15 http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/17/515824196/first-ever-tracker-of-hate-crimes-against-asian-americans-launched?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app … by @americanhaiku

“It’s not just hate groups that have been bolstered. Hate crime has seen leaps too” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/21/uk-us-hate-crime-rise-rightwing-populism … by @maryohara1

Breitbart Under Bannon: Breitbart's Comment Section Reflects Alt-Right, Anti-Semitic Languagehttps://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/02/21/breitbart-under-bannon-breitbarts-comment-section-reflects-alt-right-anti-semitic-language …

"Seeing Muslims as citizens shouldn’t depend on if they're polite or fit your image of American” https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarayasin/muslims-shouldnt-have-to-be-good-to-be-granted-human-rights?utm_term=.vspPARAXRZ#.orL9v1vY12 … by @missyasin

You'll see whole families walking down the road with suitcases and backpacks.” http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515662976/migrants-choose-arrest-in-canada-over-staying-in-the-u-s?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170219&utm_campaign=bestofnpr&utm_term=nprnews … by @kathmasterson

Refugees turned around upstate New York's dwindling populations and opportunities https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/nyregion/a-surprising-salve-for-new-yorks-beleaguered-cities-refugees.html?smid=tw-nytmetro&smtyp=cur&_r=0 … by @jessemckinley

"There’s no evidence citizens of countries singled out threaten US—but Islamophobic policies do” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/opinion/sunday/the-social-scientific-case-against-a-muslim-ban.html?mabReward=CTM3&recp=8&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0 … by @SLyonsPadilla

Unsurprisingly, private prison stocks have soared since the electionhttp://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-immigrant-detention-20170214-story.html …

Many private immigrant detention centers were prisons shut down by civil rights lawsuits over poor conditions, abusehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-justice-department-closed-this-troubled-private-prison-immigration-authorities-are-reopening-it/2016/10/27/6e52855e-9b87-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?utm_term=.9be5a7b1fccd …

But we know private detention are more dangerous, less effective and just as expensive as government-run facilitieshttps://www.splcenter.org/20161121/shadow-prison-immigrant-detention-south …

Of course the Obama administration also had a terrible record on raids & deportation—as we saw in Atlanta last yearhttps://www.splcenter.org/20160128/families-fear-atlanta-immigration-raids …