Immigration & the SPLC: Stopping ‘Hate’ Is Really about Stopping Debate
WASHINGTON (March 10, 2010) – After the collapse of the Senate amnesty bill in 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joined with the National Council of La Raza and others to launch a campaign to smear the three largest mainstream groups making a case for tighter enforcement and lower immigration. At the center of this campaign was the designation of the Federation for American Immigration Reform as a “hate group” and the spread of that taint to Numbers USA and the Center for Immigration Studies. The announced goal was to pressure journalists and policymakers not to meet or speak with these organizations. Touted as an effort to “stop the hate,” it was a thinly disguised move to stifle debate.
CIS will release a report next week examining the SPLC and its role in this campaign. “Immigration and the SPLC: How the Southern Poverty Law Center Invented a Smear, Served La Raza, Manipulated the Press, and Duped its Donors,” authored by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jerry Kammer, will be released at a panel discussion on Thursday, March 18, at 9:30 a.m. at the Murrow Room of the National Press Club, 14th & F streets NW. The report will be online at www.cis.org.
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You know, this is the very same tactic that is being used by the government in regards to “truthers,” “birthers” and the TEA Party movement in general.
Does anyone else find the SPLC’s methods as absurd as I do? While I don’t necessarily agree 100% with the Center’s position, it’s almost insulting the SPLC sells this ‘hate group’ designation to the unsuspecting.
Look at http://www.immigrationorgs.org/organizations/center-for-immigration-studies.html which gives an excellent run-down of the people and work that make up the Center. Hardly seems like a ‘hate group’ does it?