{"id":107870,"date":"2024-11-16T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T00:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/hispanic-lgbtq-communities-receive-hateful-emails-after-racist-text-surge\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T00:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T00:04:19","slug":"hispanic-lgbtq-communities-receive-hateful-emails-after-racist-text-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/hispanic-lgbtq-communities-receive-hateful-emails-after-racist-text-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic, LGBTQ communities receive hateful emails after racist text surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-15\/Getty_111524_CellphoneSTOCK.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Anita Kot\/Getty Images\/STOCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; A week after cellphone users across the U.S. reported a flurry of racist text messages, members of the Hispanic and LGBTQ communities are now receiving text messages saying they have been selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp, according to a new statement from the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>The messages follow reports of African American and Black residents receiving racist texts in the days after the 2024 election that they were selected to &#8220;pick cotton on a plantation,&#8221; according to the FBI. Cellphone users in at least nine cities &#8212; New York, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Houston, Huntsville, Texas, Los Angeles, Norfolk, Virginia, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama &#8212; reported receiving the messages.<\/p>\n<p>The new message also include some emails, the FBI said in its statement.<\/p>\n<p>TextNow, a mobile provider that allows people to create phone numbers for free, said last week it discovered &#8220;one or more&#8221; of its users allegedly sending out racist text messages to phone numbers across the country and that the service quickly shut down the accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has said it is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients of these messages include high school and college students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although we have not received reports of violent acts stemming from these offensive messages, we are evaluating all reported incidents and engaging with the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division,&#8221; the FBI said in its Friday statement. &#8220;We are also sharing information with our law enforcement partners, and community, academia, and faith leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who receives these messages &#8212; or any threats of violence &#8212; is encouraged to report them to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Kot\/Getty Images\/STOCK (NEW YORK) &#8212; A week after cellphone users across the U.S. reported a flurry of racist text messages, members of the Hispanic and LGBTQ communities are now receiving text messages saying they have been selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp, according to a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/hispanic-lgbtq-communities-receive-hateful-emails-after-racist-text-surge\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}