Painters Union Fights to Free Member from Immigration Jail
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Reporters grill White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over why President Donald Trump threatens a government shutdown over border security funding.
To understand why Tucker Carlson is the new king of Fox News and a hero to white supremacists like David Duke and Richard Spencer, you need to look at the way he talks about immigrants.
When a Muslim doctor arrived in a rural Midwestern town, "it felt right." But that feeling began to change after the election of Donald Trump. Trump had won Lac qui Parle County, with nearly 60 percent of the vote. Nearly all of Minnesota outside the Twin Cities had voted for Trump, a surprising turn in a state known for producing some of the Democratic Party's most progressive leaders, including the nation's first Muslim congressman.
At the end of February immigration agents descended on a handful of Japanese and Chinese restaurants in the suburbs of Jackson, Mississippi, and in nearby Meridian. Fifty-five immigrant cooks, dishwashers, servers and bussers were loaded into vans and taken to a detention center about 160 miles away in Jena, Louisiana.
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