How has the SPLC used the term “hate group” and “nativist extremist”?
Recently, the SPLC is using the term to try to smear the entire national immigration reform movement: millions of Americans all across the country are being tarred and smeared by the SPLC without cause. Once the SPLC designates a group, its allies who favor mass immigration cheerfully tout the designation as somehow trumping the need for serious policy debate. For example, the controversial National Council of La Raza claimed on its website that one in seven Americans (equaling 45 million people) belongs to “hate” or “nativist extremist” groups. This claim, posted on its affiliated website was unambiguously designed to discourage people from opposing mass amnesty or even have a genuine political debate about the issue of immigration reform. Remarkably, the SPLC and its allies have gone so far as to state that the “debate itself” has caused a rise in the number of “hate crimes” against Latinos. No real evidence is provided, except for fluctuating FBI data – data that both the FBI and SP
