SPLC sues Arizona groups for harassing churches that help immigrants

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As the immigrants stepped off a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bus to receive assistance from a local Arizona church, a woman stood on church property and began shouting “fuera” (“get out” in Spanish) and “criminals” at them.

But the immigrants were not breaking the law. ICE had just released them to the church, whose members were ready to welcome them to the U.S.

The SPLC filed a lawsuit today that describes how members and supporters of Patriot Movement AZ (PMAZ) and AZ Patriots have interfered with churches and volunteers in the Phoenix metropolitan area who provide immigrants and their families with food, clothing, basic medical care, temporary housing and assistance with transportation to their U.S. sponsors.

The churches are cooperating with ICE, through the Alliance of Christian Leaders of the East Valley, a nonprofit organization comprising pastors of several Latinx churches in the area. The churches have been assisting people who are seeking asylum after immigration authorities release them. But AZ Patriots and PMAZ members and supporters have tried to stand in the churches’ way.

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2019/06/04/splc-sues-arizona-groups-harassing-churches-help-immigrants

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1. What assholes.

Unless one is 100% native American, we are ALL immigrants. This needs to stop.

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3. There is a higher chance the refugees are Native American than the protestors

Since many people of the groups not in power never mixed with the Spanish ruler blood - and given the reports that many of the current groups of refugees do not speak Spanish but instead speak one of the original Native American dialects.

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4. I believe you are correct.

Those coming from Mexico, many might have a greater claim to being a native American than those haters who try to stop them and abuse them.

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5. I'd say 99% of the refugees from Central America

are 80%+ Native American genetically.

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2. K&R