03/19/2012
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"I will not sit by silently as some have tried to plunge our nation into a hateful division where we turn against each other."
"If we remain silent, if we remain silent in the face of these actions, hate will become our new normal."
"We must come together to reject racist rhetoric and work to make our community safer in a comprehensive and constructive way."
"Census data from 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 found that incarceration rates for native-born, essentially U.S. citizens, were 2 to 5 times higher than that of immigrants."