There’s a good chance that if someone has committed an act of terror or mass violence in the United States but Donald Trump is ignoring it or doing the bare minimum to acknowledge it, it’s because of the color of their skin (hint: it’s white). In fact, experts say that Trump’s obsessive need to conflate immigration with terrorism—as well as the administration intentionally leaving essential governmental posts unfilled—actually stands to make our nation less safe. “The threat of terrorism in the US today is as high as it was in the 9/11 era. But America’s main agency for preventing terror attacks is being misdirected, security experts, law enforcement professionals, and government officials tell Quartz”:

Since Trump took office, top jobs have been left unfilled at the Department of Homeland Security, and the agency is being pushed into a dangerous pattern of focusing on immigration while ignoring real threats. And while ISIS-inspired incidents grab the most headlines in the US, they’re only part of the US’s terrorism problem. From the beginning of 2010 to the end of 2016, 263 events were identified as terrorism-related incidents or extremist crimes, according to TEVUS (login required) a database compiled by a national consortium between DHS and academics. Just 66 of those were linked to Islamic fundamentalism. The remainder were inspired by right-wing or left-wing political ideologies, or single issues like anger at a government agency. Sometimes the other attacks are far more dangerous, yet get much less attention. Two days before Ullah’s failed bombing, 21-year-old William Edward Atchison started shooting into classrooms at a New Mexico high school, killing two students. For years, Atchison had “spent most of his days online, repeatedly posting threats of violence” on white nationalist sites, the Daily Beast reported. The Trump administration has not mentioned Atchison, or his victims.

What a shocker. While Trump immediately began politicizing reports of the truck attack that killed eight people in Manhattan last month by smearing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and legal immigration—the suspect, here legally, is originally from Uzbekistan—there was no Trump rant about the three white men charged with plotting to massacre Somali-Muslim immigrants in Kansas last year (Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright and Patrick Eugene Stein later asked a judge to include Trump supporters on their jury). When a white man murdered Heather Heyer in cold blood earlier this year, Trump refused to condemn the neo-Nazis and white supremacists he associated with.