![]() Obama are diametric opposites when it comes to immigration policy, so there will be a lot of changes,” Kobach told a Kansas television station. “There’s going to be a lot to do there in part because Mr. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Thursday that he planned to help Trump reverse President Obama’s immigration policies. One of the architects of several of the nation’s most controversial immigration laws is set to join President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policy transition team. Later, the campaign described the Klan’s efforts as “repulsive.” The Trump campaign was criticized this year for initially refusing to denounce support from the Klan. Well-known former Klan leader David Duke, who on Tuesday lost a Senate bid in Louisiana, was also a vocal supporter. Last year, it was part of a South Carolina protest against the Confederate flag’s removal from the state Capitol. The group has between 150 and 200 members and is “perhaps the most active Klan group in the United States today,” according to the Anti-Defamation League. No time or location for the event is listed, and a phone call to the number on its website was not returned. “TRUMP = TRUMP’S RACE UNITED MY PEOPLE,” says the website’s front page. ![]() The Loyal White Knights of Pelham, N.C., says on its website that its parade will take place on Dec. “It is the duty of all white Christian men and women to fight against the Communists who have stolen our Nation,” the website reads in part.One of the largest Ku Klux Klan groups in the country has announced a parade to celebrate President-elect Donald Trump’s win. But it can be seen on the Klan’s website that members wish to live apart from the “darker races” in America. The KKK has labeled itself as neither an evil nor a hateful group. The latest instances occurred in New York City when a Metropolitan Transit Authority employee wearing a hijab was called a terrorist and pushed down a flight of stairs Monday, and an off duty police officer who was also wearing a hijab was threatened by a man who reportedly said he throat slit and called an “ISIS b***h” Saturday. since the presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported on Nov. There had been 701 incidents involving apparent hate crimes in the U.S. Trump received encouragements from members of the KKK throughout his presidential campaign but his camp denounced any members of white supremacist group supporting his candidacy. Orange County, California prosecutors determined that the Klan members had acted in self defense from the 30 counter protesters who confronted them. Hagen was the leader among four other Klan members of a “white lives matter” rally in Anaheim, California, in February, which resulted in violence and the Klan members stabbing 3 people, according to local reports on Feb. His two assailants were charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury and are being held at the Caswell County detention center, Rose said. Hagen was arrested later that day when police pulled him over while driving.ĭillon was tended to at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and discharged shortly after arriving. Saturday and Barker was arrested at his home shortly after, the Los Angeles Times reportedTuesday. ![]() Frank Rose, who heads criminal investigations for the Caswell Country Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina.ĭillon reported the stabbing to local police at about 3 a.m. Hagen and another man who is allegedly a national Klan leader, Christ Barker, were charged with assaulting 47-year-old Richard Dillon after a drunken argument early Saturday in Barker’s Yanceyville, North Carolina, home escalated into the two men stabbing Dillon, according to Capt. William Hagen, the leader of the California Ku Klux Klan chapter, was arrested Saturday for stabbing another Klan member before a victory parade the white- supremacist group was holding in Roxboro, North Carolina, that day, to celebrate Donald Trump’s presidential election.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |