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April 29, 2019

Trump Admin Disbanded Domestic Terror Unit Amid Rising Far-Right Violence
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The latest white nationalist killing comes after the Department of
Homeland Security disbanded its domestic terrorism unit last year,
reassigning its analysts to other departments. DHS says the threat of
"homegrown extremism" has been significantly reduced, but in a review of
50 murders committed by extremists in 2018, the Anti-Defamation League
found 49 came at the hands of right-wing extremists, with white
supremacists alone accounting for 39 of the murders.


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