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If approved by the Senate, Mortensen would be the聽fourth聽individual from an anti-immigrant hate group to join the Trump administration. Mortensen鈥檚 former colleague, longtime CIS staffer聽Jon Feere, left CIS in 2017 to take a position as a senior advisor to ICE director Thomas Homan.

CIS was founded by white nationalist聽John Tanton聽who wrote in 1993, "I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that." CIS has three decades of anti-immigrant animus, publishing reports and blogs depicting immigrants as terrorists, criminals and carriers of disease under their belt. CIS publications聽refer to immigrants as 鈥淭hird-World gold-diggers,鈥� and聽聽that a lasting legacy of the Temporary Protective Status program is 鈥渢he burgeoning street gang problem in the United States.鈥澛�

In 2014聽a senior CIS staffer聽聽of President Obama, 鈥淚 would think being hung, drawn and quartered is probably too good for him,鈥� and after the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, CIS executive director Mark Krikorian聽聽鈥淢y guess is that Haiti鈥檚 so screwed up because it wasn鈥檛 colonized聽long enough聽(his emphasis).鈥� In a 2016 tweet, he聽, 鈥淥bama's Justice Dept has been doing everything in its power for 7.5 yrs to foment race war. Happy now?鈥� CIS has also commissioned disgraced former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine to write reports and blogs for the group. In 2013, civil rights groups discovered the racist nature of Richwine鈥檚 Harvard dissertation聽in which he claimed, 鈥淣o one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.鈥�

Despite this, CIS聽聽the Trump campaign on immigration issues and is聽routinely cited聽by Trump鈥檚 senior policy advisor Stephen Miller, who serves as the bridge between nativist hate groups and the White House. In 2015, Miller聽gave the keynote address at a CIS awards ceremony, where he聽聽of the group鈥檚 leadership.聽

Mortensen has written for CIS聽聽2009 and co-founded the anti-immigrant Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration. He repeatedly paints immigrants as criminals 鈥斅犅犫�� who have no allegiance to the United States.聽

• Just last year, Mortensen聽聽a piece in聽The 贬颈濒濒听titled, 鈥淢ost illegal aliens routinely commit felonies.鈥� In it he states bluntly, 鈥淭he myth of the law abiding illegal alien is just that: a myth.鈥澛�
• In another 2017聽贬颈濒濒听, Mortensen said that President Obama鈥檚 DACA programs, 鈥淩ewards illegal aliens (the so-called "Dreamers") for destroying the futures of innocent American children.鈥澛�
• In 2014, Mortensen penned a聽聽for CIS titled, 鈥淢cCain Rolls Out the Welcome Mat for ISIS on America's Southern Border.鈥澛�
• In a CIS聽聽in 2017, Mortensen claimed that President Trump鈥檚 executive order on immigration signed in January 2017, 鈥渄estroys the myth of the noble, law abiding illegal alien and forces illegal aliens and their supporters to finally acknowledge that people illegally in the United States routinely commit multiple felonies and other serious violations of American law when they enter the country, get jobs, and obtain benefits reserved for citizens and legal residents.鈥澛�
• A 2014聽聽by Mortensen on the CIS website was titled, 鈥淥pen Borders: A Threat to Public Health.鈥� In it, he writes, 鈥淭he Obama administration's unrelenting focus on open borders has exposed Americans to deadly diseases and has politicized the public health agencies that are charged with protecting the health of Americans鈥︹�� Later he writes, 鈥淩ather than putting the health of Americans first, these agencies, which once took their roles to protect the public seriously, now go to great lengths to ensure that foreign nationals from countries with serious diseases are allowed to freely enter the United States.鈥澛�
• In a 2011 CIS blog Mortensen聽聽supporters of undocumented immigrants to 鈥渨ar profiteers,鈥� writing, 鈥淲ar profiteers replace national interests and the interests of the nation's citizens with their own personal interests. Illegal immigration profiteers support open borders and encourage people with no allegiance to the United States to take the place of hard-working Americans who do their best to obey the laws and to raise their children to be honorable citizens.鈥澛�
• In a 2010 CIS blog, Mortensen attacked elected officials in sanctuary cities,聽, 鈥淲ill they give in to blackmail from illegal immigration advocates who say that illegal aliens will refuse to cooperate with police unless police let illegal alien murderers, identity thieves, gang bangers, and other assorted thugs remain in the U.S.?鈥澛�

Mortensen鈥檚 work also attracted the attention of white nationalist group聽American Renaissance聽(AMREN), founded by聽Jared Taylor, one of the most important white nationalist figures of the past quarter-century. A 2016 article by Mortensen depicting Utah鈥檚 undocumented population as criminals that was originally published on the CIS website was聽聽on the AMREN website.聽

The Utah resident鈥檚 tendency to make sweeping statements isn鈥檛 simply reserved for immigrants. In 2015 following the high-profile departures of the immigrant-friendly Salt Lake City police chief Chris Burbank and Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff after scandals, Mortensen聽:

Are Burbank and Shurtleff a purely a Utah phenomenon or are they symptomatic of a wider behavior pattern? For example, do those who support illegal aliens have a greater propensity to ignore the rule of law and to take the position that equal justice under law is simply not possible? Do they place certain individuals or groups above others based on personal beliefs and preferences rather than treating all people equally under the law until such time as laws they disagree with are changed? And is this an indication that the United States system of justice is becoming more corrupt and moving closer to the highly corrupt systems that are found in the home countries of illegal aliens?聽

Trump鈥檚 decision to recruit from the ranks of the nativist anti-immigrant movement is keeping with his draconian crackdown on immigrants and racist rhetoric in defending his policies. Clearly, Mortenson was selected because of his record, not despite it.聽