Washington Times Editorial

Open-borders smear tactics

Even in the heart of “progressive” Montgomery County, a growing number of Marylanders are taking a stand against day-laborer centers for illegal aliens in their communities, and that doesn’t sit well with advocates who tend to regard any criticism of such facilities as “nativist” bigotry. The current epicenter of the battle is a half-acre parcel…

The same cannot be said for some of the other “arguments” made by illegal-alien advocates that morning. Some jeered within earshot of reporters slogans like “Minutemen, KKK, racist bigots. go away.” That sort of talk is based upon a lie: that organizations opposing illegal immigration are somehow a cabal of racists like the Ku Klux Klan. Unfortunately, there is a propaganda campaign afoot to smear anyone who is skeptical of open borders (and subsidizing with tax money organizations like CASA of Maryland which encourage violation of the law). The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a once-great organization that spent decades combatting the KKK and educating Americans about the danger posed by such violent racist groups, is spearheading this campaign.

Today the SPLC (www.splcenter.org) appears to have as its mission trashing anyone who doesn’t believe in open borders and mass amnesty. On its Web site, the group has an ongoing feature it calls “Nativist News” — click into it and it’s apparent that the aim of the site is to depict the Montgomery demonstrators who oppose CASA and conservatives like journalist John O’Sullivan and organizations like the Family Research Council (in other words, mainstream conservatives) as persons catering to bigotry because they don’t believe in open borders. This kind of guilt-by-association is contemptible, and we urge all decent people — whatever their views on illegal immigration — to make clear that there is no place for such smear tactics in Maryland.

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