Under current US immigration law even anti-Nazi resistance fighters would have been labeled as “terrorists”

Stupid question:  If this was the case that these anti-Nazi resistance fighters are considered terrorists, wouldn’t that make the SPLC, Nazi-hunters, etc,; Terrorist groups?

Seeing how that has allegedly been all listed above and more groups not listed  dream as far as being Anti-Nazi pretty much a form of terrorizing Americans to be able to live under their rights as an American Citizen be considered  of  some kind of terrorist activity?   Why aren’t these people hunted down and their lives made miserable? 

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Definition and Legislative History
For many decades U.S. immigration law has excluded from entry into the country those intending to harm the United States. When enacted in 1952, the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)21 stressed the need to bar entry to individuals engaging “in activities prejudicial to the public interest or safety.”
22 As the world changed,so did the INA. In 1990, Congress added a new ground of exclusion relating specifically to terrorist activities.
23 After September 11, Congress passed the PATRIOT Act of 2001, which
greatly expanded INA’s terrorism definitions; one of the many provisions in the act barred any non-citizen who has afforded “material support” to a terrorist or a terrorist organization from entering or remaining in the United States.

24 The REAL ID Act of 2005 further expanded the definition of terrorism.25At the same time, both the PATRIOT Act and the REAL ID Act granted theAdministration the discretionary authority to admit non-citizens who would otherwise be barred from entering the United States because of material support. This discretionary authority may be exercised by the either the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary of State afterconsultation with one another and the Attorney General.26 As it stands today, non-citizens who knowingly commit acts that afford material support either for the commission of terrorist activity or to a terrorist organization may not enter or remain in the United States. According to the text of the INA, “material support” includes, butis not limited to, provision of “[a] safe house, transportation, communications, funds, transfer of funds or other material financial benefit, false documentation or identification, weapons (including chemical, biological, or radiological weapons), explosives, or training.” 27 The term “material” itself is not defined in the statute. The term “terrorist activity” includes acts commonly understood to involve terrorism,such as the hijacking of an airplane or kidnapping. 28 However, it also includes the following: use of an “explosive, firearm, or other weapon or dangerous device (other than for mere personal monetary gain), with intent to endanger,  directly or indirectly, the safety of one or more individuals or to cause substantial damage to property.”  >>MORE<<

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Under Section 212(a)(3)(b) of current federal immigration law even the partisans who supported those who fought Nazis in Germany would have been designated as members of Tier III terrorist groups. How could that be? Well, according to an article in City Pages, “under the law, any group of ‘two or more individuals, whether organized or not, which engages in’ terrorist activity can be labeled a Tier III terrorist group, with ‘terrorist activity’ defined as any use of violence for purposes other than personal enrichment”. Not only that, but there is no publicly available list of Tier III terrorist groups. The article explains that groups are labeled Tier III on a case-by-case basis:

…Under Section 212(a)(3)(b) of federal immigration law, immigrants involved with terrorist groups are not admissable to the United States. But in the wake of 9/11, lawmakers broadly expanded the definition of “terrorist.” That transformed thousands of refugees and asylees already granted protection by the federal government into newly minted “terrorists,” delaying thousands of immigrants’ cases for months and years…

The USA PATRIOT Act created new definitions of “terrorist organizations” and providing “material support” to terrorism. It created two categories of terrorist organizations, labeled Tier I and Tier II. Maintained by the State Department, the list includes organizations like Al-Qaeda, Peru’s Shining Path, Colombia’s FARC, Al-Shabaab, and many others.

But the PATRIOT Act also created a third tier: “undesignated” terrorist organizations. Under the law, any group of “two or more individuals, whether organized or not, which engages in” terrorist activity can be labeled a Tier III terrorist group, with “terrorist activity” defined as any use of violence for purposes other than personal enrichment.

A 2005 bill, the REAL ID Act, broadened the PATRIOT Act’s definition of a “Tier III terrorist organization” to include any organization with a subgroup that engages in “terrorist activity.”

Unlike Tier I and Tier II organizations, there is no publicly available list of Tier III terrorist groups. Groups are labeled Tier III on a case-by-case basis, which is a problem for advocates.  >>more<<

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