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DonViejo

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Wed Mar 1, 2017, 12:25 PM Mar 2017

'How genocides begin': Internet stunned by Trump plan to set up VOICE program targeting immigrants

TOM BOGGIONI
28 FEB 2017 AT 22:21 ET

Pesident Donald Trump drew audible gasps from the assembled Congressional members as he announced that he had asked Homeland Security to create an office called VOICE: Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement.

It was hinted earlier in the day that VOICE would work with ICE as a liaison with “known victims of crimes committed by removable aliens,” presumably to highlight specific crimes when immigrants were involved.

While some Congressional members gasped, those following Trump’s speech and commenting on Twitter noted that VOICE would be used as a propaganda tool to whip up anti-immigrant hysteria, with one person noting this is “how genocides begin.”

Read the tweets below:










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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/how-genocides-begin-internet-stunned-by-trump-plan-to-set-up-voice-program-targeting-immigrants/
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'How genocides begin': Internet stunned by Trump plan to set up VOICE program targeting immigrants (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP
Please share this as much as possible luvMIdog Mar 2017 #1
As someone posted earlier, how about muntrv Mar 2017 #2
K&R Solly Mack Mar 2017 #3
there has to be opportunity to punk this dembotoz Mar 2017 #4
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