Hate in the White House: June 2019

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

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

Jun 1

Johana Medina Leon, a transgender asylum seeker, dies in a hospital shortly after being released from Customs and Border Patrol custody. She had begged for medical care after experiencing chest pain.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jun 5

An unidentified 40-year-old woman from Honduras dies in Customs and Border Patrol custody.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jun 5

The Trump administration, which wants to require immigrants to pass an English test before entry into the U.S., cancels education and legal aid for migrant children in U.S. shelters.

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Anti-LGBT

Jun 10

Vice President Pence defends the administration’s decision to prohibit U.S. embassies from flying the Pride flag.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jun 12

Two Trump administration officials are held in contempt of Congress for keeping secret documents related to the citizenship question the administration wants to add to the 2020 Census.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jun 14

The Trump administration will not be allowed to ban minors in ORR custody from having abortions, a federal appeals court rules.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jun 17

President Trump tweets that immigration authorities will round up undocumented immigrants in cities around the U.S. and deport them en masse.

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Anti-Black

Jun 18

President Trump reiterates the racist comments he made about the “Central Park Five,” five African-American teens who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in 1989. Trump took out a full-page newspaper ad to fan animosity toward them during the trial.

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Hate

Jun 19

Katharine Gorka is named CBP press secretary. She downplayed the threat of white supremacists while an adviser at DHS. Her husband Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump official, has ties to the Hungarian far right.

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Hate Group

Jun 19

President Trump does not disavow members of the hate group Proud Boys or the QAnon conspiracy theorists who showed up to support him at a rally where he officially announced his re-election campaign.

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Anti-LGBT

Hate Group

Jun 20

Tony Perkins, head of hate group Family Research Council, is named to lead the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jun 21

President Trump tells ICE to arrest 2,000 immigrants with deportation orders in 10 cities; immigration authorities dub the raids “family op.”

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Anti-Immigrant

Jun 22

President Trump delays the nationwide mass arrest of undocumented immigrants.

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Hate

Jun 23

Leaked documents show concerns that anti-immigrant activist Kris Kobach, considered as a candidate to head the Department of Homeland Security, had a “white supremacy” vulnerability.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jun 27

The Supreme Count blocks the Trump administration’s nativist citizenship question from appearing on the 2020 Census.

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Anti-Immigrant

Jun 27

President Trump proposes delaying the 2020 Census until he is allowed to add a citizenship question to it.

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