"The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the Federation for American Immigration Reform a hate group since 2008..."

This is the same SPLC that claims that the largest category of "hate group" in the land is Black and/or Muslim. 

The company counted 201 Black and Black Muslim groups for 2016, which far outnumbers its 130 alleged Klan groups outright, and all of its alleged neo-Nazi, racist skinhead and white nationalist groups by two-to-one, respectively.

The SPLC also claims that its 101 anti-Muslim "hate groups" pose an existential threat, but nobody in the media seems to believe that the SPLC's 89 Muslim "hate groups" are even newsworthy. That's nearly a one-to-one ratio.

http://wp.me/pCLYZ-N9

If the SPLC are going to be your go-to "experts" then you have to accept ALL of their claims, no matter how inconvenient and patently ridiculous they are.