![]() ![]() ![]() Neo-Nazi groups, which the year before had numbered 99, saw the largest increase, growing by 22 percent and reaching 121 groups across the country. ![]() Since coming to office in January 2017, Trump has repeatedly come under fire for what critics say is dog whistling the far right, including white supremacist groups. “President Trump in 2017 reflected what white supremacist groups want to see: a country where racism is sanctioned by the highest office, immigrants are given the boot and Muslims banned,” she said. Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, laid much of the blame for last year’s increase on the administration of President Donald Trump, saying he has stoked the flames of white supremacy and anti-immigrant xenophobia. It was also the first year since 2009 that hate groups were documented in all 50 states. The number of hate groups has risen 20 percent since 2014, the civil rights monitor noted in a conference call with members of the press.Īccording to the SPLC, 2017 was the third straight year to witness a rise in the number of hate groups. The SPLC identified 954 hate groups in the US last year, an increase from the 917 it had documented in 2016, the group said in a report released on Wednesday. The number of hate groups operating in the United States grew by four percent in 2017, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based monitoring group. ![]()
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