:Remembrance Project
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| founder = Maria Espinoza
| location = Houston, Texas, United States
| origins = 2009
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The Remembrance Project is an anti-illegal immigration American non-profit organization based in Houston, Texas. The Project maintains a list of American citizens killed by illegal immigrants in the United States and works to draw attention to the victims of such crimes.{{cite news |last1=Yee |first1=Vivian |title=For Grieving Parents, Trump Is 'Speaking for the Dead' on Immigration |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/25/us/trump-undocumented-victims.html |accessdate=20 February 2019 |work=New York Times |date=25 June 2017}}
It was praised by President Donald Trump, 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 2016 United States presidential election, members of the Remembrance Project joined candidate Donald Trump at rallies.{{cite news|last1=Wisk|first1=Allison|title=Anti-illegal-immigration group the Remembrance Project out again to support Trump|url=http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-trump-anaheim-201605-anti-illegal-immigration-group-1464205768-htmlstory.html|accessdate=January 26, 2017|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=May 25, 2016}}{{cite news|last1=Nakamura|first1=David|title=Trump signs directive to start border wall with Mexico, ramp up immigration enforcement|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pledges-to-start-work-on-border-wall-within-months/2017/01/25/dddae6ee-e31e-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html|accessdate=January 26, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 25, 2017}} On January 25, 2017, President Trump thanked the organization for their good work.
The Southern Poverty Law Center 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 The Social Contract which it calls a racist journal.[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/09/15/donald-trump-address-anti-immigrant-remembrance-project-weekend "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!"{{cite web|url=https://www.adl.org/news/article/anti-immigrant-activist-maria-espinoza-increases-her-profile|title=Anti-Immigrant Activist Maria Espinoza Increases Her Profile|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|date=June 2, 2014}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://theremembranceproject.org Remembrance Project]
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Category:Non-profit organizations based in Houston
Category:Non-profit organizations based in Texas
Category:2009 establishments in the United States
Category:Anti-immigration politics in the United States
Category:White nationalism in Texas
Category:Victims' rights organizations
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