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Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Gabriella Perez, left, attends a vigil for her grandfather, Ruben Vera Perez, who was detained
by immigration agents in Astoria in December.
Asylum: ‘We’re going to
take it one day at a time’
Continued from Page A1
Maria Perez and her sup-
porters have been working on
getting Ruben Perez released
on bond while his depor-
tation is reviewed . Astoria
Mayor Bruce Jones and for-
mer Mayor Arline LaMear
have written letters to the
immigration court in sup-
port of Perez, asking that
he be brought back to the
community.
Jones asked the immi-
gration court to consider the
economic impact of remov-
ing people like Ruben Perez
at a time when workers are in
short supply.
“Mr. Perez is an example
of the type of ideal employee
these local employers are
seeking,” Jones wrote.
“Removing him from the
local labor pool has not ben-
efi ted the community, region
or nation in any way. On the
contrary, it is another blow to
our local economy.”
Perez’s detention has
also put a local spotlight on
a national controversy about
U.S. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement arrests at
or near courthouses. Many
judges and civil liberties
advocates, including Paula
Brownhill, the presiding
judge of the Clatsop County
Circuit Court, have spo-
ken out about these types of
arrests, arguing it undermines
the criminal justice system.
As the family waits for a
bond hearing scheduled for
later this month, Maria Perez
said it’s a relief to know her
husband has options.
“We’re going to take it
one day at a time, and I’m
trusting in God,” she said.
In the courtroom, Maria
Perez and her daughter were
able to lock eyes with Ruben
Perez before the hearing
adjourned. A moment of brief
happiness quickly turned to
tears .
“It felt good to see him,”
Maria Perez said afterward.
“But it’s hard knowing he
isn’t walking out with us.”
Flyer: Schaefer says he regrets
the distress his actions caused
Continued from Page A1
a hall of mirrors that refl ected
and amplifi ed Schaefer’s
own racist and homophobic
sentiments until it seemed
like they were everywhere.
What once seemed extreme
began to feel normal.
“I was radicalized,”
Schaefer said.
Schaefer made eight rules
for participants in his online
forum — which, he said, did
draw some interest before he
took it down. He told mem-
bers it was a Christian group,
where participants were to
refrain from posting graphic
images or cursing. He dis-
couraged Adolf Hitler-wor-
ship, saying neo-Nazism
was as offensive to him as
communism. “They’re both
gay,” he wrote. Schaefer said
he did not want to start a hate
group.
Rule No. 8 was, “Racism
is tolerated.”
“I told them it’s not OK
to hate blacks for no reason,”
Schaefer told the Observer.
In his view, the forum was a
place where local right-wing
radicals could go to “uplift”
one another.
“We might be racist, but
we are not violent in the
least,” he wrote.
Social media
“Social media is now a
critical infrastructure ele-
ment for engaging even
unaffi liated extremists into
the fold,” said Brian Levin,
an attorney, professor at Cal-
ifornia State University, San
Bernardino and director for
the Center for the Study of
Hate and Extremism.
“It not only ensnares big-
ots, it also ensnares unstable
people who become bigots,”
Levin explained.
Many hate groups are
easily accessible through
social media platforms like
Twitter.
“White supremacists are
increasingly opting to oper-
ate mainly online, where the
danger of public exposure
and embarrassment is far
lower, where younger people
tend to gather, and where it
requires virtually no effort or
cost to join in the conversa-
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A screenshot from an online forum set up — and then taken
down — by local resident Will Schaefer lays out rules for
conduct.
tion,” a 2016 Southern Pov-
erty Law Center report said.
In 2016, researchers at
George Washington Univer-
sity found that, in terms of
Twitter-recruiting
efforts,
white supremacist groups
were growing at a spectacu-
lar rate.
“American white nation-
alist movements have seen
their followers grow by
more than 600 percent since
2012,” the study said.
Levin said there is evi-
dence that participation in
radical online groups is con-
tributing to the recent precip-
itous rise in racist, homopho-
bic and anti-Semitic violence
in the United States.
Researchers at his cen-
ter found that preliminary
2018 crime statistics suggest
the number of hate crimes in
large cities rose for the fi fth
consecutive year.
According
to
the
Anti-Defamation League,
extremists killed at least 50
people, up from 37 in 2017.
And while there are extrem-
ists of all races and reli-
gions and at both ends of the
political spectrum, far-right
groups appear to be growing
the fastest.
In 2018, “Every single
extremist killing — from
Pittsburgh to Parkland — had
a link to right-wing extrem-
ism,” a recent Anti-Defama-
tion League report said.
The Federal Bureau of
Investigation is so concerned
about internet radicalization
that it launched the “Don’t
Be a Puppet” campaign,
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Schaefer
told
the
Observer he now sees that
he was wrong. He says
he regrets the distress his
actions caused. He says he
has learned his lesson — and
he lost all of his friends over
the incident.
“The community doesn’t
have to be scared of me,” he
said.
The consequences con-
tinue to ripple, even in his
own home. His mother
— who had nothing to do
with the project — fought
back tears as she described
the steps she and her hus-
band took to limit the dam-
age, including taking down
the fl yers and website, and
going to the police.
“We’ve done everything
we can to make it right,” she
said.
She defended her family,
saying they are hardwork-
ing, law-abiding churchgo-
ers. She described her son as
“a good boy” who made “a
stupid mistake.”
Asked if he had actu-
ally been threatened over
the fl yers, Schaefer said he
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