Niraj Warikoo
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Staff Writer for daily newspaper: Detroit Free Press @Freep . Reports on religion, poverty, immigration. Tips, ideas: DM, nwarikoo @freepress .com, 313-223-4792
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ICE collected tuition from hundreds of students for a university it created in metro Detroit as part of a undercover sting operation and then shut it down, arresting students and deporting them.
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After years living in the U.S. for 30 years, a 39-year-old immigrant in metro Detroit was deported this morning to Mexico. Escorted by ICE agents, he said bye to wife and 2 kids before boarding. He was brought to US from Mexico when he was 10-yrs-old, too old to qualify for DACA:
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Final results in the city of Detroit:
Joe Biden, 93.51%
Donald Trump, 5.06%
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This is not a joke. I actually got an email yesterday from rapper Chamillionaire (of Ridin’ Dirty fame, the song that goes, They see me rollin,’ they hatin’) after he read my story on Jorge Garcia being deported. He wants to help him.
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It appears Trump campaign created spam accounts with Latino names who all tweeted exact same thing in past 2 minutes
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An immigrant from Afghanistan, Abdul Aziz, is being hailed as a hero for saving lives in New Zealand mosque by rushing at the shooter, scaring him off, say witnesses.
“He went after him, and he managed to overpower him, and that's how we were saved”
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"Stop Separating Families," read signs from supporters of Jorge as he prepares to board flight for Mexico in a deportation by ICE, part of crackdown by Trump administration:
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"How do you do this on Martin Luther King Jr. day?" said Erik Shelley, a Detroit activist who was at the airport to support Jorge Garcia. "It's another example of the tone-deafness of this administration. ... If Jorge isn't safe, no one is safe."
After years living in the U.S. for 30 years, a 39-year-old immigrant in metro Detroit was deported this morning to Mexico. Escorted by ICE agents, he said bye to wife and 2 kids before boarding. He was brought to US from Mexico when he was 10-yrs-old, too old to qualify for DACA:
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The family of a slain woman in Michigan, Ruby Garcia, blasts Trump, saying he blatantly lied in his speech today about meeting with them: “He did not speak with any of us, so it was kind of shocking seeing that he had said that he had spoke with us"
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Armed with guns, a group of African-Americans in Michigan with a group called ‘Legally Armed in Detroit’ that supports open-carry and gun rights for minorities rallied today on steps of State Capitol building in Lansing against the killing of George Floyd.
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ALERT: Wayne County Board of Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 on certifying election results, split along party lines.
Dem member blasts Republicans for "allowing politics" to block certifcation: "There is no reason under the sun for us not to certify this election...irresponsible"
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It’s official. Ex-State Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit announced today she is running for the U.S. House seat in metro Detroit formerly held by John Conyers. If elected, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants would be the first Muslim woman in Congress.
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Mujtaba al-Sweikat, a student slated to attend Western Michigan University, is beheaded in Saudi Arabia. He had been arrested when he was 17 by Saudis in 2012 after taking part in democracy rallies, and tortured while in custody.
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On MLK Day, ICE deports Jorge Garcia, a married father of 2 kids in metro Detroit who has lived in the U.S. for 30 years. He was brought to the U.S. when he was 10-years-old by undocumented family members. He's too old to qualify for DACA.
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A metro Detroit man was arrested by the FBI after planning to travel to Atlanta to commit mass murder against employees at CNN headquarters, made 22 phone calls to CNN: "Fake news. I'm coming to gun you all down."
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14-yr-teen shot at in Detroit suburb asking for directions: "My mom says that, black boys get shot because sometimes they don't look their age, & I don't look my age. I'm 14; but I don't look 14. I'm kind of happy that, like, I didn't become a statistic,"
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2016 interview with Kamala Harris' aunt in India, Dr. Sarala Gopalan, after Harris won Senate race: "Having known her fighting spirit, I don't think she will stop here. She is not scared of anything and will fight for everything that she aims to achieve."
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Head of Detroit NAACP blasts Republican board member on Wayne County Board of Canvassers for saying that she would not certify election results in 80%-black Detroit, but was ok with the results outside of Detroit: “Shame on you. ... You are a disgrace.”
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In Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, a 14-yr-old teen knocking on door of a home asking for directions after missing the bus is shot at by man at door.
Family of teen, who is African-American, says it was profiling. Bullet missed teen, but he's shook up.
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Another brazen lie from Trump. I was there for 3 days inside TCF Center in Detroit and saw many Republican poll challengers and observers inside the room. They were very active, going around to tables, observing and strategizing.
Nobody wants to report that Pennsylvania and Michigan didn’t allow our Poll Watchers and/or Vote Observers to Watch or Observe. This is responsible for hundreds of thousands of votes that should not be allowed to count. Therefore, I easily win both states. Report the News!
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In Michigan, a state Republican bill would exempt many whites in rural areas from 30-hour work requirements for Medicaid health coverage. Residents in black-majority Detroit, Flint would have the work requirements, but not in some largely white rural areas.
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The U.S. bombs Syria, funds the war, producing refugees, while demonizing Syrian refugees, Muslims, and preventing their entry into the U.S.
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"I knocked on the lady's door. Then she started yelling...'Why are you trying to break into my house?'... And she kept yelling at me. Then the guy came downstairs, and he grabbed the gun, I saw it and started to run. And that's when I heard the gunshot"
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Detroit City Councilwoman Sheffield endorses Bernie Sanders. Her father, Rev. Horace Sheffield, also has endorsed Sanders. Rev. Sheffield was former head of Detroit chapter of Rev. Al Sharpton's activist group. Rev. Sheffield's late dad was noted labor leader in Detroit.
Detroit City Council President Pro Tempore
@MsMarySheffield
endorses
@BernieSanders
for President:
"Let's march into the voting booth this Tuesday to burn down the walls of oppression, to burn down the walls of inequality and inequity...
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ALERT: The Michigan Board of Canvassers has just voted 3-1 to certify the results of the election in Michigan.
It's now official: Biden defeated Trump by 154,187 votes.
50.63%, Biden
47.85%, Trump
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BREAKING NEWS: The AP calls it for Rashida Tlaib of Detroit.
The oldest of 14 children born to Palestinian immigrants will likely be the first Muslim woman to serve in Congress.
#MIPrimary
#MI13
BREAKING: Rashida Tlaib wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Michigan's 13th congressional district.
#APracecall
at 1:53 a.m. EDT.
#Election2018
#MIprimary
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A gay man said books don’t make people gay. He calls for unity between Muslims and gays. “The far right in this country” hates both of us. He is booed and laughed at by crowd.
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I just spoke for 45 minutes with Nathan Phillips, the Native American leader harassed in D.C. He lives in Michigan.
Phillips said there was a "mob mentality" that was "scary."
New detail he told me: Before incident seen on video, the students were harassing a group of blacks.
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Gov. Huckabee approves of travel ban, citing Pres. Jackson ignoring court order, leading to death march of Native Americans, Trail of Tears.
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"There's every reason to believe the next several months will be a particularly high-risk period."
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At the Detroit Lions game, national anthem singer
@midwestrico
takes a knee and then raises fist with head bowed, echoing the 1968 Olympics:
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Some of the immigrant kids separated from parents now arriving in Michigan “are infants as young as three months of age,” says Michigan Dept. of Civil Rights.
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Michigan used to have two senior House Dems - U.S. Reps. John Dingell and David Bonior - who were often critical of Israel and sympathetic to Arabs, Muslims. But maybe because they were white Christian men, they weren't relentlessly attacked & demonized like Reps. Omar and Tlaib.
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Meanwhile, Biden joked in Dearborn about running over a reporter asking him about Israel: “Can I ask you a quick question on Israel?
In truck, Biden replies: “No, you can’t. Not unless you get in front of the car as I step on it.”
Press corps chuckles.
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Oprah mentioned Recy Taylor, who died recently. A prof. in Detroit at Wayne State wrote 2011 book on her case: "At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, & Resistance--A New History of Civil Rts Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power"
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Lt. Tim Willis of Oakland County Sheriff's Office tells district court that mother of Oxford shooter sent text message to son after he got caught on 11-29 by school doing searching for ammunition:
"LOL, I'm not mad, you have to learn not to get caught."
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At forum yesterday, Mitt Romney said he’s more rightwing than Trump on immigration: “I’m also more of a hawk on immigration than even the president. My view was these DACA kids shouldn’t all be allowed to stay in the country legally.”
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"That means that child is now an orphan," said ACLU Michigan attorney Valdes of the separated immigrant child in Michigan whose parent has been deported.
Just learned that the parent of one of the 8 immigrant separated kids under the age of 5 currently in Michigan with Bethany Christian Services has been deported.
That child may now be put in long term foster care, said ACLU attorney.
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This is a "slap in the face of all of the work we do," said a Wayne County election worker, blasting the 2 Republican board members who voted against certifying the election results in Michigan's largest county. She said they worked hard to process and tabulate the ballots.
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"I feel kind of sad," Garcia told the Free Press Sunday night, his hands interlocked, pressed against his forehead in worry. "I got to leave my family behind, knowing that they're probably going to have a hard time adjusting. Me not being there for them"
On MLK Day, ICE deports Jorge Garcia, a married father of 2 kids in metro Detroit who has lived in the U.S. for 30 years. He was brought to the U.S. when he was 10-years-old by undocumented family members. He's too old to qualify for DACA.
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Speaking in Texas on how migrants are suffering in detention centers near border, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit is heckled with hate.
She replies: "I will outlove your hate. I will always put my country first...I will never stop speaking truth to power."
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The sister of a slain woman slammed GOP & Trump for using her sister's death to whip up anti-immigrant hysteria: “Nobody really speaks about when Americans do heinous crimes...why he would just bring up illegals. What about Americans who do heinous crimes”
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@rezaaslan
You talk about "tolerance," yet you did one of the most racist TV shows about Indians in memory.
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Trump thanks blacks for not voting: "The African-American community was great to us...they didn't vote, & that was almost as good for me"
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Trump actually did better in Detroit this year than in 2016.
Trump gained almost 5,000 more votes and increased his % by 2 points, from 3.11% to 5.06%.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden had almost 1,000 fewer votes than Clinton, getting 93.5% to Clinton's 95%
Looks like Trump performed better in the city of Detroit than in 2016.
Trump got almost 5,000 more votes in Detroit than 4 years ago:
2016: 7,682 votes in Detroit, 3.11%
2020: 12,654 votes in Detroit, 5.06%
Trump got 4,972 more votes, a 65% increase, or 2 point increase.
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ALERT: Big wins tonight for Dearborn's Arab-American community:
- Top 4 vote-getters for Council were all of Arab (Lebanese) descent: 2 Christian, 2 Shia
- Incumbent mayor seen as open to Arabs defeated challenger
- Council candidates seen as stoking Trump-like tensions defeated
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“I smell politics at the core of this action,” says Democrat member Kinloch of the Republicans on 4-member Wayne County Board of Canvassers that just deadlocked 2-2 on certifying election results in Michigan’s largest county, which hasn’t happened in memory. “I smell the games.”
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Board member Jonathan Kinloch, a Democrat on the 4-member board, blasts the 2 Republicans for blocking the certification of election results in Michigan's largest county, Wayne, calling it "reckless & irresponsible."
Politics made a "presence" here today.
ALERT: Wayne County Board of Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 on certifying election results, split along party lines.
Dem member blasts Republicans for "allowing politics" to block certifcation: "There is no reason under the sun for us not to certify this election...irresponsible"
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Antidepressant drugs like Prozac and Zoloft "are being found in multiple Great Lakes fish species' brains...research has shown antidepressants in water create 'suicidal shrimp' that swim toward light instead of away from it"
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In a school district in Michigan, maskless parents chant and pound on doors of school board meeting demanding the school make face masks optional. The state currently has worst outbreak in nation.
This is the scene outside of the Hudsonville Public Schools board meeting tonight. Dozens of parents have showed up to urge the school to make masks optional. People here say officials locked the doors 15 minutes before the meeting, and now they’re not letting participants in.
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Jerusalem Post: Israeli “Interior Minister Arye Deri has decided on Thursday not to allow pro-BDS congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) to enter Israel. The two congresswomen were expected to arrive on Friday”
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Packed crowd in Dearborn for school board meeting tonight discussing LGBTQ books in schools: “If democracy matters, we’re the majority,” reads sign. “Homosexuality Big Sin,” says another.
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An immigrant dad in Michigan facing deportation to Albania who cares for his wife suffering from multiple sclerosis is taking refuge in a Detroit church acting as a sanctuary.
ICE wants to deport him next week.
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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, says the pause in fighting is not enough.
“A temporary pause in the violence is not enough. We must move with urgency to save as many lives as possible and achieve a permanent ceasefire agreement. Over 14,000 Palestinians have been killed..."
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Crowd applauds a speaker who opposes LGBTQ books and then chants at Dearborn Schools board: “Shame on you.”
600 people here at board meeting.
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Statue of Liberty climber on her anti-Trump protest: An immigrant from Congo, “Patricia Okoumou says her four-hour standoff with police was fired by outrage at caging of migrant children”
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Kamala Harris' aunt said Kamala still practices Tamil, Indian customs: "Even though she was born & brought up in America, my sister has inculcated in her South Indian culture & values. She believes in going to the temple because her mother believed in it."
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So it turns out Giuliani’s star election witness in Michigan was basically a temp janitor:
Cease & desist letter from Dominion to Mellissa says you “were hired through a staffing agency for one day to clean glass on machines & complete other menial tasks”
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Black families earning $230,000 a year were more likely to be given subprime loan than white families making $32,000
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ALERT: Central United Methodist Church in Detroit announced today they are taking in an Albanian immigrant in metro Detroit, Ded Rranxnurgaj, whom it says ICE wants to deport. His wife has multiple sclerosis. It’s the first publicly-known case of sanctuary in Detroit under Trump:
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Michigan Gov. Whitmer signed today an extension until May 28 of her earlier order closing restaurants, casinos, bars, theaters and other places of public accommodation. Press release sent out tonight:
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Henry Ford was so anti-Semitic that Nazi leader Hitler once told the Detroit News: “I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration."
Henry Ford created a Dearborn newspaper to spread his anti-Jewish views, which have found new life today online by neo-Nazis:
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If you click on the individual accounts, their other recent tweets are also exactly worded, meaning it's spam generated to hype up Trump.
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The Prime Minister of Ireland visited a Native American tribe in Oklahoma to thank them for helping them with financial aid during the Irish Great Famine in the 19th century:
Saying thank you to the
@choctawnationOK
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Gov. Whitmer: “The virus has killed more Michiganders than we lost during the Vietnam war. Extending this order is vital to the health and safety of every Michigander.”
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New certified results released today show that Joe Biden's margin of victory in Michigan has increased by about 8,000 votes from the unofficial results.
He defeated Trump by 154,187 votes, up from about 146,000 votes.
50.63%, Biden
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Rightwing protesters heckle & racially demean US Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit in Texas as she spoke about seeing detained migrants in poor conditions near border: “We don’t care about sharia law. We care about Jesus Christ...Go take care of your country”
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"I spoke to some of her family," Trump said in Michigan today of the case of a slain woman, Ruby Garcia.
But "Mavi Garcia, the family spokesperson, said neither Trump nor anybody from his campaign has contacted her or anybody in her immediate family."
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Lawyers say that “Breonna Taylor's shooting was the result of a Louisville police department operation to clear out a block in western Louisville that was part of a major gentrification makeover”
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State Rep. Bettie Cook Scott used anti-Asian slurs & made anti-Chinese remarks when talking about a rival candidate, State Rep. Stephanie Chang, who is of Taiwanese descent.
Both were running in Dem primary for State Sen. seat in metro Detroit. Chang won.
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Hundreds of Bangladeshi-American Hindus and supporters protested today in Warren against the wave of attacks against Hindu temples and homes in Bangladesh over the past week:
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In a victory for gun control advocates, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled today that schools can ban visitors who have guns. The decision involved MI Gun Owners v Ann Arbor Public Schools and Open Carry v Clio School District.
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CNN does a report on the story I broke earlier today, on Jorge Garcia of metro Detroit being deported to Mexico:
Wife of Detroit man deported to Mexico after 30 years in US speaks out: "He's not a criminal. ... His case needs to be looked at individually, because he deserves to be here in a country that he's known, not Mexico"
#CuomoPrimeTime
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The suburbs around Detroit have more coronavirus deaths than all of Mexico.
Mexico is sadly experiencing very big CoronaVirus problems, and now California, get this, doesn’t want people coming over the Southern Border. A Classic! They are sooo lucky that I am their President. Border is very tight and the Wall is rapidly being built!
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On stage in front at Aretha Franklin’s funeral are Min. Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and former president Bill Clinton
#ArethaHomegoing
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Dept. of Homeland Security says it set up a fake university in a Detroit suburb - University of Farmington - to target immigrant students trying to stay in U.S. without authorization. 8 were arrested and indicted in what feds call a 'pay to stay' scheme.
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The case of Garcia similar to case of Hernandez, Detroit dad deported to Mexico aft 19 yrs, ran business, paid taxes
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In Michigan, there are suspects who are Muslim arrested for terror threats that are way milder and vague, but never get released on any bond, let alone a low $10,000 bond like the guy who threatened CNN employees:
The suspect whom the FBI says threatened to kill CNN employees & earlier called a Michigan mosque to insult Muslims "is currently free on a $10,000 unsecured bond.”
His dad tells Post: "this whole thing has been a mistake, he really didn’t mean any of it."
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New information not reported before: ICE has arrested 90 more foreign students since March, mostly from India, at fake university in metro Detroit set up by the Dept. of Homeland Security, bringing total to 250 students it has detained.
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@rezaaslan
And after you did the racist TV show denigrating Indian culture for cheap entertainment, you refused to even hear the concerns many had.
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Jorge Garcia struggles with his new life in Mexico after living 30 years in the U.S. Deported 3 weeks ago from Michigan to Mexico, he’s now separated from wife, two kids. I traveled to Mexico to tell his story:
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Romney's dad, ex-Michigan Gov. George Romney, was born in Mexico & once faced a birther controversy. His foreign birth became an issue when he ran for president in the late 1960s, with opponents using it to question whether he was eligible to be president.
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AP: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, the largest mass execution of minority Shias in its history, says an advocate. One of them was slated to a student at Western Michigan University
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"The coronavirus is surging once again across the U.S., with cases rising in 22 states over the past week."
"We simply have never done a very good job containing the virus, despite losing 200,000 lives ... this is what that persistent failure looks like."
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Lt. Tim Willis:
On the morning of 11-30, the day of the shooting, Ethan's teacher was alarmed by a note by him that contained a drawing of a handgun with text: "The thoughts won't stop. Hep me." Also had drawing of a bullet with words: "Blood everywhere."
Lt. Tim Willis of Oakland County Sheriff's Office tells district court that mother of Oxford shooter sent text message to son after he got caught on 11-29 by school doing searching for ammunition:
"LOL, I'm not mad, you have to learn not to get caught."
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She won. In a huge upset, a 27-year-old immigrant defeated incumbent Republican who leads 3rd biggest county in US, Harris County in Houston area in Texas:
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Michigan's Governor "said on MSNBC the state is also looking at going directly to the World Health Organization for coronavirus tests" after the Trump administration wasn't responsive to their requests for help.
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The suspect whom the FBI says threatened to kill CNN employees & earlier called a Michigan mosque to insult Muslims "is currently free on a $10,000 unsecured bond.”
His dad tells Post: "this whole thing has been a mistake, he really didn’t mean any of it."
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The biggest violators of overstaying visa are immigrants from Europe, but you never see raids, profiling of them by federal agents:
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Gov. Snyder: "I'm going to have to live with this my entire life."
Rep. Cummings snaps back: It's Flint children who have this for life.
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Visiting Dearborn - a 47% Arab-American city where Arab-Americans held three protests today asking the Biden administration to help protect Palestinians - "Biden jokes about running over reporters who ask about Israel as he test drives electric truck"
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This is the story I broke Monday that Chamillionaire was responding to: a father in a Detroit suburb with no criminal record who lived in the US for 30 years is deported to Mexico:
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“Free, free Palestine,” chants crowd of Arab Americans outside Dearborn Police station in direction of Ford Rouge plant where Pres. Biden is speaking this afternoon.
“Joe Biden is going to hear from us today, one way or another” said attorney Amer Zahr
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Faculty at Western Michigan Univ. pleaded in 2017 for the release of student executed today: "No one should face beheading for expressing beliefs in public protests. Mujtaba showed great promise as an applicant for English language and pre-finance studies"
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Ryan Bates, a leader with liberal advocacy group Michigan United, slams the 2-2 deadlock in Wayne County on certifying election results as an "absolute travesty."
Bates says they will be "working in the courts and streets" to over turn this decision.
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Despite reports today that the FBI has arrested a Michigan man accused of threatening to massacre of CNN employees for “fake news,” Pres. Trump this morning calls CNN “fake news”
Even Crazy Jim Acosta of Fake News CNN agrees: “Trump World and WH sources dancing in end zone: Trump wins again...Schumer and Dems caved...gambled and lost.” Thank you for your honesty Jim!
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The AP calls it for Ilhan Omar, an immigrant from Somalia running for US House seat in Minnesota.
She, along with attorney Rashida Tlaib of Detroit, will likely be the first Muslim women to serve in Congress.
Omar will also be the first Somali-American to serve in Congress.
BREAKING: Ilhan Omar wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Minnesota's 5th congressional district.
#APracecall
at 8:56 p.m. CDT.
#Election2018
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The US Rep who introduced tonight Bernie Sanders, the first Jewish person to win presidential primary, is first Muslim elected to Congress.
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14 months ago, Detroit native Rep.
@KeithEllison
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Two prisons in New Jersey banned Michelle Alexander’s book on mass incarceration in the US: “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"
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Wyane State Univ. Prof. McGuire of Detroit wrote op-ed last month about Recy Taylor: "I was in Abbeville to interview Taylor for my doctoral dissertation about how she survived being kidnapped and gang-raped by a group of white teenagers in 1944."
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