Slotkin asks Biden administration to label foreign white supremacists as terrorists
Updated Apr 09, 1:02 PM;
Posted Apr 09, 1:02 PM
Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., questions witnesses during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on worldwide threats to the homeland , Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 on Capitol Hill Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP)AP
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U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Holly, is asking the Biden administration to designate overseas white supremacists as foreign terrorist organizations, giving the American government more tools to check their influence.
Slotkin identified 13 groups in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top national security and justice officials in the Biden administration. The Michigan congresswoman, who serves as chair on the House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism, also asked what responsibilities the U.S. has in helping the Canadian government track members of The Proud Boys an
Membership in the UK-based Sonnenkrieg Division, or helping it financially, will be outlawed; domestic spy agency has sounded alarm over similar outfits
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Since an Australian gunman killed 51 worshippers at mosques in New Zealand s Christchurch in 2019, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has said the far-right threat had increased and become an enduring threat .
Sonnenkrieg Division, a UK-based neo-Nazi group, will be effectively banned in Australia once its listing as a terror group is confirmed.
After that, the outfit will become the first far-right organisation to be listed as a terror group in Australia.
The Department of Home Affairs signalled that the Sonnenkrieg Division would join the current list of 27 proscribed organisations, which have so far been exclusively jihadist or separatist groups linked to the Middle East and Central Asia.