Hate in the White House: July 2018

The following is a timeline of instances of extremism in the Trump administration in July 2018.

President Trump has opened the White House doors to extremism, not only consulting with hate groups on policies that erode our country’s civil rights protections but enabling the infiltration of extremist ideas into the administration’s rhetoric and agenda.

Once relegated to the fringes, the radical right now has a toehold in the White House.

Groups and individuals referenced in the list below are not associated with hate groups and extremist ideology unless indicated by a hate group profile.

Anti-Immigrant

Jul 2

Trump administration creates new office to investigate so-called “citizenship fraud.”

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 3

Trump admininistration instructs ICE agents to give detained parents a form with two options: to leave the country with their children or leave the country without them.

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Anti-Native American

Jul 5

President Trump, again, calls U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas.”

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Anti-Black

Jul 5

President Trump calls U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters “low IQ individual.”

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 6

Reports emerge that the U.S. Army is discharging immigrant recruits who had been on the path to citizenship.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 6

Defense contractor discovered to have been holding migrant children in office buildings.

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Anti-LGBT

Jul 9

President Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 9

Federal judge rejects Trump administration’s request to detain migrant children long term.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 9

Trump administration misses deadline to reunite migrant children with parents.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 10

DOJ tells a federal judge it may have mistakenly separated a father and toddler who could both be U.S. citizens for as long as a year.

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Anti-Government

Jul 10

President Trump pardons two Oregon ranchers who inspired antigovernment extremists to occupy a federal wildlife refuge for 41 days.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 10

DHS tells detained migrant parents they must pay for their own DNA tests to be reunited with their children.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 11

DHS tells officers to reject asylum claims based on fear of gang and domestic violence and to consider whether a migrant crossed the border illegally in order to potentially reject even legitimate fears of persecution.

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Anti-Black

Jul 12

Trump administration says “America’s war on poverty is over and largely a success” in seeking to justify a new poilcy of work requirements for Medicaid.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 13

President Trump echoes white nationalist talking point in saying that immigration has “changed the fabric of Europe … and I don’t mean that in a positive way.”

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 23

The Trump administration says in a court filing that 463 parents of migrant children are no longer present in the U.S.

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Radical Right

Jul 24

AG Jeff Sessions delivers remarks to Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership summit, a right-wing nonprofit organization supported by the so-called “alt-right.”

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 24

DOJ instructs U.S. attorneys’ offices not to use the term “undocumented” immigrants and instead refer to someone without papers as “an illegal alien.”

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 24

Government data released showing Trump administration intentionally prosecuted migrants traveling with children rather than those traveling alone.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 25

Reports emerge that DHS may have neglected to give as many as three-quarters of all migrant parents removed from the U.S. a choice about leaving their children behind.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 27

Federal judge requires the Trump administration turn over a list of all migrant parents it deems “ineligible” for reunification with their children.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jul 29

President Trump threatens to shut down the federal government if Democrats don’t agree to sweeping changes to the U.S. immigration system and to fund a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Anti-Muslim

Jul 29

A group of 36 people representing all five of the countries affected by the Muslim travel ban sue the Trump administration, asking the administration to explain how it grants waivers.

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Anti-LGBT

Jul 30

AG Jeff Sessions announces DOJ is creating a so-called “religious liberty task force.”

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