Now the FBI has announced that Latino and LGBTQ+ individuals also received texts and emails of a similar nature.“The text message recipients have now expanded to high school students, as well as both the Hispanic and LGBTQIA+ communities,” the FBI said in a statement on Friday. “Some recipients reported being told they were selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp. The messages have also been reported as being received via email communication.”
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She said that she knew the message wasn’t real, but the specificity was unsettling.
“The timing is not a coincidence,” Brier said. “There’s a lot of concern among my queer friends about what’s going to happen to us.”
The FBI said they had already been aware of the “offensive and racist” text messages sent to Black communities around the country in the election aftermath and are working with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and other federal authorities to locate the senders.
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On Wednesday and Thursday following the election, hundreds of social media users in over a dozen states shared the messages they had received. Some individuals reported getting voicemails, as well. Students at several historically Black colleges were among the recipients of the racist texts.
Most of the first wave of messages said the recipient had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation” and to look out for vans that will pick them up. Some were explicitly signed as from the “Trump & Vance Administration.”
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To date, the FBI said it had not received any reports of text messages that resulted in violent acts.
Several states and federal agencies are investigating the origin of the racist and homophobic messages. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced on Friday that the Louisiana Bureau of Investigations’ cyber team had traced some of those messages to a web address in Poland, although the original source is still undetermined.
(*) This Article is biased in favor of homosexuality, but it’s purpose here on AltrightTV is to show that many people still feel like homosexuality is a mental illness, including we here at AltrightTV.
* Original Article:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/after-donald-trumps-election-lgbtq-people-are-getting-mysterious-texts-for-reeducation-camp/
