In December 2018, a man named Rinaldo Nazzaro purchased 30 acres of remote land in Republic, Washington, a city of roughly 1,000 people about an hour’s drive south of the Canadian border. The tract was meant to serve as a training ground for a terroristic white power group he founded earlier that year called The Base.

Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump’s executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.