The US Congress has unanimously passed a resolution against increasingly prevalent hate groups in the country, sending a clear message to President Donald Trump who stirred controversy by his response to a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month.
The joint resolution was approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday after the Senate did so a day earlier.
The resolution, which condemns neo-Nazis, the KKK and other white nationalists, comes after the violent protest in Charlottesville.
It expresses “support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting white nationalists, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other hate groups, and urging the president and the president’s cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups.”
On August 12, thousands of members of those groups descended on Charlottesville for a “Unite the Right” rally. The march soon turned violent. A…