Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons”
David Hoch, identified only by first name in Nick Shirley’s video, got info for his anti-Somali campaign from a GOP state House staffer.
David Hoch, identified only by first name in Nick Shirley’s video, got info for his anti-Somali campaign from a GOP state House staffer.
“ICE is doing whatever they can to be undetected, and so anything we can do to chip away at that.”
Trump has aimed to turn American workers against their immigrant colleagues. Labor leaders say it backfired.
Before alleging fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community, right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley built a following with anti-immigrant clips.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.
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The 911 operator couldn’t send an ambulance because it was already responding to another call from ICE’s Stewart Detention Center.
The Trump administration is funding its anti-immigrant campaign with money set aside for defense, Democratic lawmakers wrote.
ICE’s operation against Minnesota’s Somali community is seen not as an immigration raid but as a racist intimidation campaign.
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