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‘My kids are crying’: list of targeted addresses stokes fears across Belfast

People in city’s minority ethnic communities speak of alarm as violence casts light on racism in Northern Ireland

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Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising

Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.

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Pentagon ends deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles

Roughly 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines had been deployed. It wasn’t immediately clear how long the rest would stay in the regi

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Thousands march against Crowborough asylum seeker plan

The demonstrators oppose Home Office plans to house up to 540 male asylum seekers in the town.

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Third man charged after fire at asylum accommodation

Five people had to be rescued from the building on 31 October including four children.

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If you’re Irish, come into the parlour — if not, then clear off | The Irish Post

I don’t know the place, Inch, Co. Clare. I don’t know any of the people in Inch, Co. Clare.But I...

I don’t know the place, Inch, Co. Clare. I don’t know any of the people in Inch, Co. Clare. But I do know their actions in blocking access roads, in and out of a hotel housing asylum seekers, were bigoted and based on prejudice. There is no other explanation. Indeed, the assertion by some that they were doing so with the best interests of the refugees at heart was nothing if not offensive, as it assumed a level of gullibility and stupidity amongst the rest of us that would have been stratospheric. They did not behave as they did out of concern for those displaced men. They behaved as they did because they did not want those men there. Even though, as is clearly evident in the middle of our government sanctioned housing crisis, the accommodation would only ever be a short term solution. The rancid guff about women in the area not being safe is deeply ironic seeing as a legally found sex offender, Donald Trump, was recently greeted on his arrival in Co. Clare with pipers and a red carpet. The Irish far right keep pushing a phrase about military-age, unvetted males. It is racism dressed up in a nonsensical phrase. The danger begins when local communities are influenced by it. When they fall for it. Because it is a concoction of words based on hate and fear of the foreigner. For instance, no one in this townland I live in is vetted. I don’t know the fine details of their backgrounds. I wouldn’t expect to have the right to.

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