D.A. King was well on his way to demonstrating in court that the Southern Poverty Law Center twisted the truth in branding his organization an “anti-immigrant hate group” and placing it on the SPLC “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
A former insurance agent, King started a nonprofit aimed at encouraging Georgia to enforce immigration law. As a crusader against illegal immigration, he found legal immigrants to join his organization’s board, and named the group after Dustin Inman, a 16-year-old boy who died in a car crash caused by an illegal alien.
The SPLC had previously told The Associated Press that it did not consider King’s group a “hate group,” but in 2019—after the SPLC registered a lobbyist to oppose an immigration enforcement bill King supported—it suddenly changed its tune and added the Dustin Inman Society to the “hate map.”…