SPLC sees decline of hate groups but "credits" AZ type laws. Murder/suicide of JT Ready

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/us-border-guards-vow-to-continue_n_1483385.html
[font size=5]U.S. Border Guard Vows To Survive After Jason Todd 'JT' Ready's Death[/font]

.... An SPLC recent report said that "nativist extremist" groups like Ready's decreased by almost half in 2011 to 184 groups, down from a high of 319 such groups in 2010.

The Minuteman Project and other similar groups have been plagued by infighting and financial difficulties, largely splintering or disintegrating altogether.

The movement's decline comes as states like Arizona passed harsh immigration laws that included provisions allowing local police to question a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws, Potok said.

Those laws created an impression among some civilian border militia members that state governments were doing more about illegal immigration, and that they no longer had to, he said. ....


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