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Report: DHS Disbanded Domestic Terrorism Unit Despite Rise of White Supremacism

HeadlineApr 03, 2019

The Daily Beast is reporting 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 civil rights groups and security experts say that membership in white supremacist groups is on the rise and that white nationalist domestic terrorists pose a growing security threat.

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