Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon warned jurisdictions considering reparations packages that approving them would violate the law.

Dhillon told Newsmax on Monday that a reparations package being considered by Buncombe County, North Carolina, would violate federal law if approved. The $2.9 million package was scheduled for a vote on Tuesday.

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“I grew up in rural North Carolina,” Dhillon told Carl Higbie FRONTLINE . “In the 1970s, there were definitely the vestiges of discriminatio

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