The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is suing the Trump administration on behalf of immigration detainees that the organization claims are being subjected to conditions equivalent to “torture,” in facilities where they are allegedly denied proper medical care and disability accommodations.
Critics say the Montgomery, Alabama-based SPLC, whose founder, Morris Dees, and president, Richard Cohen, were ousted earlier this year—allegedly for employee abuse—treats all opposition to illegal or legal immigration, open borders, and multiculturalism as hate, and all political expression of those views as hate speech. The SPLC also has a record of promoting hate crime hoaxes, the critics say, as well as ignoring bias incidents against white people and Jews targeted on university campuses by Islamist and anti-Israel groups.
