"Jeff Sessions may be the most dangerous ally that extremist anti-immigrant groups have in Congress," said Lindsay Schubiner of the Center for New Community, a group that tracks racist and xenophobic organizations.
The second answer is the administration's generally xenophobic attitude toward world organizations and even alliance with allies.
"They want to show people that they understand that the migrants are the problem," Aleksandr M. Verkhovsky, the director of SOVA, an organization tracking xenophobic groups, said in a telephone interview.
Last week a brawl broke out on a subway train when a group of passengers insisted on inspecting the bags of several people who appeared to be from the Caucasus, according to the Sova Center, an organization that tracks xenophobic violence.
Almost 40 people have been reported killed and 200 injured in xenophobic attacks in 2009, the Sova Center, an organization that monitors hate crimes, said this month.
Yes, the Republican party, ostensibly a "very serious" organization, has given its formal blessing to the xenophobic pipe dream that has been the centerpiece of Trump's campaign from the start.
Yevhen Zakharov, head of the Kharkiv Rights Group, a leading rights organization in Ukraine, said that the rise in xenophobic sentiments can be attributed to a severe economic crisis that has shaken the country in recent years, leading people to blame others for their hardships.
Several NGOs, such as Memorial, a prominent Russian group that assists victims of xenophobic violence and discrimination, and Transparency International, an anti-corruption organization, were subsequently classified as "foreign agents".
At least 37 people were killed and more than 300 injured in xenophobic attacks in 2010, according to the Sova Center, a Moscow-based organization that tracks such violence.
The United Nations organizations in South Africa are deeply concerned about the continuing xenophobic related violent attacks against foreign nationals and some South Africans living in the province of Gauteng over the past several days.
