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UPDATE: In January, President Trump renominated Ronald Mortensen to be an assistant secretary of state at the State Department.

This week, President Trump that he has nominated Ronald Mortensen to be the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration, a move that further cements Trump鈥檚 extreme anti-immigrant agenda.

Mortensen must be confirmed by the Senate to oversee the State Department鈥檚 to protect refugees, victims of conflict, and some of the world鈥檚 most vulnerable populations.

Yet Mortensen鈥檚 record directly undermines the bureau鈥檚 core mission. Senators should be alarmed by Mortensen鈥檚 fiercely xenophobic rhetoric and long history of undermining the rights of refugees and immigrants.

He founded the Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration and serves as a senior fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which is notorious for dubious research on the supposed harms caused by immigrants. The CIS has Trump鈥檚 attacks on refugees and said that the government should prioritize non-Muslim refugees. Trump adviser Stephen Miller even a discredited CIS study to defend the administration鈥檚 Muslim ban. One CIS official resembling 鈥溾�� to make incarcerated people build Trump鈥檚 southern border wall.

Mortensen shares CIS鈥� hardline views and has authored several troubling pieces for the group espousing these positions. For example, Mortensen believes it is 鈥溾�� to grant any legal status to undocumented immigrants because they, in his words, 鈥溾�� while residing in the U.S. Mortensen similarly criticized the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) by vilifying Dreamers as

Mortensen called on Utah to a law allowing the children of undocumented immigrants who live in Utah to pay in-state tuition when attending public colleges and universities. Instead, he urged state lawmakers to Arizona鈥檚 controversial SB 1070 law, which authorized police to demand papers proving citizenship or immigration status from anyone they stop and suspect of being in the country unlawfully. It invited rampant racial profiling against Latinos, Asian-Americans, and others presumed to be 鈥渇oreign鈥� based on how they look or sound.

Doing little to hide his bigotry, Mortensen once Utah鈥檚 first Latina state senator, Luz Robles Escamilla, by insisting that she must 鈥渄ecide where her loyalties lie鈥攊s she a Utah State Senator representing the legal residents of Utah or is she is a representative of illegal aliens and the government of Mexico serving as a Utah State Senator.鈥�

He said that her advocacy for the rights of immigrants helps facilitate 鈥渢he criminal activity of illegal alien drug dealers who prey on Utah children鈥� and is 鈥渟acrificing innocent Utah children for the benefit of illegal aliens,鈥� including 鈥渉uman traffickers, sexual predators, identity thieves, gang members and a wide range of other criminals.鈥�

He also , (R-Ariz.) over his years of work on behalf of immigration reform, saying that his 鈥渟upport for illegal aliens鈥� will cause him to be seen as an ISIS 鈥渃ollaborator鈥� who rolled out the red carpet for 鈥淚SIS terrorists on the Mexican side of the border with car bombs ready to go.鈥�

Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) have also faced his wrath, with Mortensen pillorying Flake as an 鈥溾�� and Rubio as 鈥溾�� over their work on immigration bills.

Mortensen has even the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for baptizing undocumented immigrants and appointing them to ecclesiastical positions like missionaries.

While Mortensen has little empathy for immigrants, he does believe there is one victim of today鈥檚 politics: Donald Trump. He calls Trump the target of 鈥�,鈥� engineered by government officials and the media, which may ultimately lead to violence.

Senators should ask Mortensen about his extreme hostility towards immigrants and his Trumpian rhetoric that demonizes immigrants as criminals. They should be skeptical of any attempt, by Mortensen or his supporters, to play down his extreme views.