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Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit \u201con the resurgence of political terrorism,\u201d where Miller described the left as \u201cenemies of civilization\u201d and described efforts to \u201cdisrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.\u201d Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more left-wing groups as terrorist organizations. Also on Thursday, the State Department announced new visa restrictions targeting what it calls \u201cmembers of Far-Left Terrorist and other aligned groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019re putting political groups in the United States and abroad on the same footing as groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS<\/span>,\u201d says independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, who has been closely following the Trump administration\u2019s designation of left-wing activism as terrorism.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis effort to designate left-wing groups as foreign terrorists, using these broad terms like ‘antifa,’ will allow them to go after people who are not committing violence but who are simply engaging in the political process,\u201d adds former FBI<\/span> special agent Mike German.<\/p>\n

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