WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- Sen. Susan Collins issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Susan Collins sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem calling on the Coast Guard to immediately abandon a policy change that made certain displays, such as swastikas and nooses, no longer classified as hate symbols. After originally stating in a November 20 memo that such symbols would remain prohibited, recent reporting indicates that the Coast Guard has implemented a policy that downgrades these symbols from hate symbols to "potentially divisive."
"The U.S. Coast Guard's decision to categorize swastikas and other Nazi symbols as merely 'potentially divisive' is an affront to the memory of the millions of...