Teresa Haley, the state conference president of the Illinois NAACP, is facing calls to resign after disparaging remarks about migrants that her peers are calling “hate speech” during a Zoom leadership meeting, reported The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

“The comments came up when some of the Chicago-based presidents started to talk about the migrant crisis, the funding that was going into neighborhoods, and they had differing opinions from my own. It’s OK to have differing opinions,” DuPage County NAACP leader Patrick Watson told Brooke Leigh Howard. “They had different opinions about some of the resources that were going to the community, that resources weren’t going towards individuals within the community, even though those resources are coming from different sources. …That’s okay to have a different opinion. But President Haley engaged in what I would call absolute hate speech.”