The Center for Immigration Studies, (CIS) a Washington immigration think tank, has commissioned a new report detailing the some the race baiting policies of the top two Latino immigration organizations, National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jerry Kammer, who is now a Senior Research Fellow at CIS, wrote the report. And uncovers a host of toxic hate campaigns to ensure amnesty for those who are living in the country illegally.
Some of the highlights of the report are listed below;
While the SPLC presented itself as a public-interest watchdog, it became a propaganda arm of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). Its designation of Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) as a ‘hate group’ was a publicity stunt in the service of La Raza’s ‘Stop the Hate Campaign.’ That campaign, formally launched in early 2008, is actually an effort to stop the debate on national immigration policy. ?
The SPLC had demeaned FAIR for years, without tarring it with the toxic ‘hate group’ smear. It tried to justify its timing of the hate group announcement – the month before the ‘Stop the Hate’ campaign was launched – with a drummed-up accusation that FAIR had ‘crossed the Rubicon of hate’ with a meeting between a single FAIR official and a delegation from a right-wing Belgian political party that was visiting Washington.
When the SPLC designates an organization as a ‘hate group,’ it places that organization on a list already occupied by such notorious groups as the Ku Klux Klan and racist skinheads.