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"He has no criminal record at all. He’s been twice applied for and been vetted and been granted protection under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. And despite that, he was picked up by immigration officials."

On Friday, a Seattle judge ruled not to release 23-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina from the Northwest Detention Center at Tacoma.
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Seventy-five years after FDR signed the order forcing 120,000 Japanese Americans and legal residents into U.S. prison camps, George Takei remembers being ordered from his home at gunpoint.

Seventy-five years ago yesterday, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.
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"We’re talking tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people could be removed very quickly, according to these orders."

We speak with Franco Ordoñez, White House correspondent for the McClatchy Washington Bureau, on the memos signed by DHS secretary John Kelly.
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Former black liberation activist Zolo Azania, who spent 35 years in prison—27 on death row—is free.

Zolo Azania’s supporters have set up a GoFundMe page to help the 62-year-old "rebuild his life" as he looks for employment and continues his activism.
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Seventy-five years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, deciding to imprison 120,000 Japanese Americans and legal residents in camps across the U.S.

We speak with Karen Ishizuka, a third-generation American of Japanese descent who curated the exhibit, "America's Concentration Camps."
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The board of directors of New York City’s public library system has voted to name Harlem’s 115th Street library after legendary activist, civil rights leader and entertainer Harry Belafonte. Belafonte turns 90 years old on March 1.

And in New York, the board of directors of the city’s public library system has voted to name Harlem’s 115th Street library after Harry Belafonte.
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Protester: "David Friedman, you promote racism, fund illegal settlements. We will not be silenced. You do not represent us, and you will never represent us."

President Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, was repeatedly interrupted by Jewish and Palestinian protesters Thursday.
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Amy Goodman writes, "The mainstream media credits a Republican revolt with the defeat of Andrew Puzder as labor secretary. In the case of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the media says it was leaks from the intelligence community that took him down. But the engine driving both ousters are movements of thousands upon thousands of people across the country, saying 'no' to hate, bigotry and injustice."

Read and share the weekly column by award-winning journalist Amy Goodman. Subscribe to her podcast on SoundCloud and Stitcher Radio.
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The Pentagon has admitted that U.S. warplanes fired depleted uranium munitions during air raids in Syria, despite a vow not to use the toxic and radioactive weapons in the battlefield.

Depleted uranium is both toxic and highly radioactive, and many medical experts have linked its use to cancer and birth defects.
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"If ICE comes knocking," says Rev. Mike Morran, "we will ask them if they have a warrant. And if they do not have a warrant, we will tell them they cannot come in."

We go to Denver to speak with Reverend Mike Morran, senior minister at First Unitarian Society of Denver.
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ThinkProgress editor Alan Pyke: Under Alex Acosta's oversight, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice "was permanently sabotaged by a couple of years of intentional misconduct."

President Trump has named longtime Republican lawyer Alex Acosta to be his new nominee to head the Labor Department after Andrew Puzder withdrew.
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"Supposedly, I am a criminal because… I had false documents to work and put food on the table for my children. But what should we call you, Mr. President Trump, when you have been evading taxes for years?" - Undocumented mother Jeanette Vizguerra

We spoke with Jeanette Vizguerra, an immigrant mother of four children who has taken refuge in a Denver church out of fear of deportation.
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Young DREAMers came out of the shadows and gave their information to the U.S. government to remain in the country legally. What does it mean when the government, which took their information, now turns against them?

President Trump said he would "show great heart" when considering whether to deport recipients of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. So why is Daniel Ramirez Medina sitting in jail? We look at the case of a 23-year-old father who was detained by ICE one week ago in Des Moines, Washingt...
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President Donald Trump assailed the media and defended his administration as a "fine-tuned machine" Thursday in a combative and rambling news conference at the White House.

Watch highlights from Donald Trump's first solo press conference Thursday.
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"It was like doomsday," said survivor Mohammad Ashfaq.

In Pakistan, a suicide bomb blast ripped through a dance celebration at a Sufi Muslim shrine Thursday, killing at least 77 people and wounding hundreds more.
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The frontrunner to become President Trump's science adviser called climate scientists a "glassy-eyed cult" and falsely accused the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of manipulating climate data.

Princeton University physicist William Happer also supports prohibiting federally funded scientists from communicating their findings to the public.
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