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The Remembrance Project is an anti-
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American non-profit organization based in
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, Texas. The Project maintains a list of American citizens killed by
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in the United States and works to draw attention to the victims of such crimes. It was praised by President
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, and members of the group frequently joined Trump during the 2016 United States presidential campaign.


History

The Remembrance Project was founded in 2009 by conservative anti-immigration activist Maria Espinoza a child of a legal immigrant father. During the
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, members of the Remembrance Project joined candidate Donald Trump at rallies. On January 25, 2017, President Trump thanked the organization for their good work. The
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has criticized Espinoza for "helping to advance the agenda of the organized nativist movement in the United States, which is to demonize immigrants in general, whether documented or not", for calling crime committed by illegal immigrants an "epidemic" and for appearing on the front cover of ''
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'' which it calls a racist journal."Donald Trump to Address Anti-Immigrant Remembrance Project This Weekend"
September 15, 2016, Southern Poverty Law Center.
Espinoza has supported a "catch an illegal immigrant" game on the campus of University of Texas at Austin, and claimed that "Child molestation and rape are very numerous in this illegal alien demographic!"


See also

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Illegal immigration to the United States Illegal immigration, or unauthorized immigration, occurs when foreign nationals, known as aliens, violate US immigration laws by entering the United States unlawfully, or by lawfully entering but then remaining after the expiration of their ...
* Illegal immigrant population of the United States *
Immigration and crime The relationship between immigration and crime has been a subject of extensive research, political discourse, and public debate. Immigrants are disproportionately represented in prison populations in many Western countries, though notable exce ...
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Office of Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement The Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office was a U.S. government agency established within the Department of Homeland Security under the first Trump administration in February 2017. President Donald Trump directed it be establishe ...
* Angel Families *
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