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"One of its founders, Yvette Carnell, was a board member of the anti-immigration group "Progressives for Immigration Reform" and in a YouTube video was shown wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. The group has received support from conservatives including Ann Coulter and criticism from the left.[1]" This selection is problematic.

Yes, it is accurate that Yvette Carnell was at one time a board member of PFIR, but the following bits of information and the next sentence are grossly misleading and I assert, irrelevant to the larger entry about the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS).

The YouTube video where Carnell wore the hat was a plot device, a prop, for a particular show in early 2017. Such a statement placed in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia assumes some sort of affiliation or partisanship for the Trump campaign that is not and was not ever there. Carnell was a former staff member of Barbara Boxer and she has also worked for the Democratic National Committee. Carnell has no affiliations with the Republican Party, and the suggestions in that paragraph are deceptive and mislead readers.

Criticism from the left regarding the issue of immigration does exist, but the basis of that criticism should have nothing to do with alleged and deceptive suggestions about right-wing political affiliation. Partisans of the ADOS movement argue that there is a national debt owed to the American citizens denied recompense and justice whose ancestors built and were the literal wealth that drove this nation's economy. This population finds it problematic to place an asymmetric amount of attention to undocumented and legal immigrants over American citizens who have continued to be denied and ignored.

New York Times reporter Farah Stockman, in a Tweet thread on November 8, 2019, stated "...Citizen investigators have tried to prove that ADOS is funded by conservatives. So far, I haven't uncovered or seen any proof of this. No one I spoke with who said they had proof really did." Link for Tweet thread: https://twitter.com/fstockman/status/1192845833613578243?s=20