Tag: mississippi
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ice abandons self-deportation program for illegals
from washington times: With only eight takers since the program’s creation this month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has decided to scrap its self-deportation program for illegal immigrants who previously had ignored court orders to leave the country. The pilot program, which began Aug. 5 in five cities, officially ended Friday. It had been…
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45 yrs later, mississippi remembers medgar evers
from biloxi sun herald: Medgar Evers once said, “You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.” It was 45 years ago today that Evers, the field agent for the Mississippi NAACP, was assassinated outside his Jackson, Miss., home just hours after leaving the Coast where he’d been planning a protest with Dr.…
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‘operation sudden impact’
from steve watson: Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up operation that one sheriff’s deputy has described as “martial law training”. Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas took part in what was described by local media as…