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Trump Shuts Down DHS Civil Rights Office as Deportations Spark Outrage
Yahoo News ^ | 4/21/25 | Hafiz Rashid

Posted on 03/21/2025 6:03:01 PM PDT by hardspunned

The Department of Homeland Security shut down its office in charge of investigating civil rights complaints on Friday.

DHS closed its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which was created along with the department in 2002 to advise leadership on civil rights and liberties and to investigate agency complaints on everything from disaster response to immigration enforcement. Its 90 employees were told they will be paid through May 23.

There’s no word on whether the functions of the office will be transferred elsewhere, or what will happen to its $22 million in funding. But it comes as no surprise, considering the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce or eliminate oversight and civil rights offices in other departments. The civil rights division in the Justice Department, for example, has been directed to serve conservative culture-war aims, and much of its other work has been frozen.

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It was a ridiculous concept in the first place. I didn’t see any concern for law abiding Americans’ civil rights in the last administration.
1 posted on 03/21/2025 6:03:01 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

Who needs to support racism.


2 posted on 03/21/2025 6:08:39 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: hardspunned

My guess is that there are Civil Rights Offices imbedded in hundreds of Departments.


3 posted on 03/21/2025 6:08:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: bray

Commissars or political officers


4 posted on 03/21/2025 6:12:49 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Sacajaweau

50 years ago every Air Force base had one paid for by the American taxpayers...

It was called Social Actions Office and only catered to black servicemen and women...

Whites were turned away...


5 posted on 03/21/2025 6:17:05 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: hardspunned

Several obamajudges and bidenjudges just soiled themselves over this.


6 posted on 03/21/2025 6:22:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: bray

Deportations do not spark outrage, they spark celebrations and gratitude.


7 posted on 03/21/2025 6:23:10 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: hardspunned

The DOJ has a civil rights department, one isn’t needed in DHS


8 posted on 03/21/2025 6:24:41 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: hardspunned

They are SERIOUSLY AND ACTUALLY. Draining The Swamp!!!


9 posted on 03/21/2025 6:54:08 PM PDT by _longranger81
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To: hardspunned

I voted for that.


10 posted on 03/21/2025 6:54:17 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: hardspunned

I thought that Office is under DoJ?


11 posted on 03/21/2025 9:04:50 PM PDT by paudio (MATH: 45<47)
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To: hardspunned

More Winnimin, please!


12 posted on 03/22/2025 4:04:44 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (MAGA!!!!)
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To: bray

since when did invaders to this country have civil rights here


13 posted on 03/22/2025 5:59:01 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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