The Case

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• Virtually every large-scale civil rights atrocity in U.S. history was preceded by a widespread campaign vilifying a specific ethnic or religious group, and Latinos are only the most recent.   Code Words of Hate
  
• The most recent Federal Bureau of Investigation Hate Crime Statistics report shows a significant increase in hate crimes committed against Latinos in the United States between 2004 and 2006. As the data in the case file show, there has been a steady growth of anti-Hispanic hate crimes since 2004, with the number of victims increasing by 25%  Hate Crimes
  
• This case file identifies the following groups as hate or extremist groups and as being at the forefront of the hate speech directed toward Hispanics in the U.S. by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Many of the spokespersons for these groups have appeared often and unchallenged on national news programs.  
  Hate and Extremist Groups
  
• Mainstream national news outlets, especially the cable news networks, have provided highly visible platforms to representatives of the hate and extremist groups noted on this site. These representatives usually are identified simply as "opponents to illegal immigration," and their credentials and history with hate groups and vigilantism are barely, if ever, examined or challenged. Often they are scheduled with no opposing viewpoint represented. For the Latino community, "debating" these spokespeople is like having the NAACP debate the Ku Klux Klan on affirmative action - hardly an appropriate way to carry out an important policy debate.  Media Malpractice