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    FAIR targeted as "hate" group by La Raza, Southern

    And here we go -- I think all of us here ought to email a copy of the Minnesota bus crash story, or any one of the hundreds of stories of crime and murder committed yearly by illegal aliens in this country to the AP and demand that they do their job and report this issue FAIRLY.

    I think this article itself is hate speech against American citizens!!

    I also like how they fail to provide a link to LaRaza's web site. Not ONE mention of crimes committed by illegal aliens. This goes absolutely unmentioned in our media currently.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_ ... ate_groups

    By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
    Mon Mar 10, 1:16 AM ET

    NEW YORK - Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, a watchdog group said Monday.

    The Southern Poverty Law Center, in a report titled "The Year in Hate," said it counted 888 hate groups in its latest tally, up from 844 in 2006 and 602 in 2000.

    The most prominent of the organizations newly added to the list, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, vehemently rejected the "hate group" label, and questioned the law center's motives. FAIR said the center was using smear tactics to boost donations and stifle legitimate debate on immigration.

    "Their banner may be 'Stop the hate' but it's really 'Stop the debate,'" said FAIR's president, Dan Stein. "Apparently you can't even articulate an argument for immigration reform without being smeared."

    The law center's report contends there is a link between anti-immigrant activism and the significant rise in hate crimes against Latinos in recent years. According to the latest FBI statistics, 819 people were victimized by anti-Latino hate crimes in 2006, compared with 595 in 2003.

    "The immigration debate has turned ugly and the result has been a growth in white supremacist hate groups and anti-Latino hate crime," said Mark Potok, director of the law center's Intelligence Project. "The majority of anti-Latino hate crimes are carried out by people who think they're attacking immigrants, and very likely undocumented immigrants."

    Potok said hate groups were proliferating because a growing number of Americans were agitated by the immigration debate. He said many new groups had appeared in the border states of California, Texas and Arizona where illegal immigration has been a particularly volatile issue.

    Critics of the law center, including FAIR, contend that the periodic reports on hate groups exaggerate the threat to public safety and inflate the total by including entities that are little more than Web sites or online chatrooms.

    Potok acknowledged that some of the groups may be small and said it is impossible for outsiders to gauge the membership of most of the groups.

    Among the largest categories of hate groups, Potok said, are neo-Nazi, white nationalist, racist skinhead and those with links to the Ku Klux Klan.

    FAIR, which is frequently quoted by the media and whose officials often have testified before Congress, advocates an end to illegal immigration and tighter controls on legal immigration. In pursuing these goals, it says, "there should be no favoritism toward or discrimination against any person on the basis of race, color, or creed."

    The law center said its decision to designate FAIR a hate group was based in part on the ideology of various people who established it, worked for it or donated to it over its nearly 30-year history. The center has issued a detailed report outlining its allegations, although little of that report deals with FAIR's recent activities.

    The center's critique of FAIR was endorsed by a major Latino group, the National Council of La Raza. The council's vice president for advocacy and legislation, Cecilia Munoz, said FAIR's leaders were polished in public forums, but represented "a very unsavory set of views."

    Stein described the assertions of bigotry as "a total fantasy."

    Both FAIR and law center are relatively well known in the ranks of advocacy groups. The law center, which started as a small civil rights group in 1971, has amassed an endowment fund totaling $200 million as of October and it received nearly $29 million in grants and contributions in fiscal 2007.

    FAIR claims more than 250,000 members and reported more than $4 million in contributions in 2006.

    Stein, in addition to rejecting the "hate group" label, questioned the law center's linking of anti-immigrant sentiment to the recent increase in anti-Latino hate crimes. The data on such crimes is inexact and prone to misinterpretation, and some of the incidents classified as anti-Latino hate crimes involved violence between Latino gangs and non-Latino rivals, Stein said.

    The law center has listed numerous incidents not fitting that profile. In one such assault, in February 2007, three men broke into a mobile home in Wright City, Mo., yelling "immigration enforcement" and beat an illegal immigrant from Mexico with a piece of lumber, according to police reports.

    In Arkansas, where the Latino population has grown rapidly, there have been several recent violent incidents. In December, police said, a Hispanic man was fatally beaten in Lowell, Ark., after his nephew spoke Spanish to the assailant's girlfriend.

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    It's time to dismantle LaRaza as a hate group
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    OUR GOVERNMENT IS FUNDING A HATE GROUP--LA RAZA!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7
    It's time to dismantle LaRaza as a hate group
    I'm ready - tell us how!

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    The center's critique of FAIR was endorsed by a major Latino group, the National Council of La Raza. The council's vice president for advocacy and legislation, Cecilia Munoz, said FAIR's leaders were polished in public forums, but represented "a very unsavory set of views."
    What do they mean by "a very unsavory set of views"?

    LaRaza would be upset at the Pope if he talked against illegal immigration.

    I agree, LaRaza needs to go. They are a group filled with the racist hate speech.
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    La Raza is the largest Anti American ethnocentic radical racist hate group in the United States......

    The only different between them and the Neo Nazi, skinhead, Ku klux Klan is that LA RAZA is much larger and far more dangerous to this country than any of these small groups.



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    Moving to News since this is from a news source.
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    La RAZA and the Mexican government are desperate as they are seeing that more and more states and local communities are taking action with legislation and laws to stop illegal immigration, increase public safety and reduce the costs borne by the local communities and states due to illegal immigration. They are DESPERATE and the name-calling and smear campaigns is all they have left....and after all this...Mexico's consulates are going full-force in their public relations campaigns to agressively push tourism to Mexico and secure rights for illegal alien MExicans in the U.S.

    Such wonderful, wonderful people. BOYCOTT MEXICO, VACATION IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, HAWAII, INSTEAD. LOVE YOUR KIDS? DON'T SEND THEM TO SPRING BREAK TO MEXICO.

    DON'T FORGET REPORT ALL SUSPECTED ILLEGAL ALIENS TO 1-866-DHS-2ICE.

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    What about the thousands of hate murders by illegals against Americans? The SPLC says nothing about them.
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    It's rather interesting when the Goliaths of the open border, radical, left-wing, pro-illegal alien, cartel consisting of agents of the Mexican government (like the many individuals who work for both the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, MATT, and others that are also involved with the National Council of LA RAZA), like LA RAZA, MALDEF, Hermandad MExicana, LULAC, Institute for Mexicans Abroad, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the ADL, the SPLC are so very intimidated by the power of Americans via grassroots organizations with little funding (and no government funds ...La RAZA works with U.S. tax dollars...disgusting and absurd) that they have gone to great lengths and expense to SILENCE THE DEBATE VIA THEIR HATE AND SMEAR.

    AMERICANS will not be silenced on this issue. Elected offiicals owe no allegiance to foreign nationals living, working in our country illegally. NONE.

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