The new “National Pastime” – Immigrant Bashing

 Posted by on 2010/03/09  7 Responses »
Mar 092010
 
The new "National Pastime" - Immigrant Bashing

An new report by the well respected and venerable Southern Poverty Law Center titled Rage on the Right: The Year in Hate and Extremism , highlights the new national pastime of “immigrant bashing. From the report: Hate groups stayed at record levels — almost 1,000 — despite the total collapse of the second largest neo-Nazi group in America. Furious anti-immigrant vigilante groups soared by nearly 80%, adding some 136 new groups during 2009. And, most remarkably of all, so-called “Patriot” groups — militias and other organizations that see the federal government as part of a plot to impose “one-world government” on liberty-loving Americans — came roaring back after years out of the limelight. Two of the highest profile examples of this MORE

Marcelo Lucero & Suffolk County New York – A year later

 Posted by on 2009/11/07  Comments Off
Nov 072009
 
Marcelo Lucero & Suffolk County New York - A year later

November 8, 2008. A young Ecuadorian, walking with a friend after a day of work, looking forward to a cold beer and TV with friends, is confronted by a gang of young punks, out for a night of “beaner bashing”.  Something they do for the “sport of it”, several times a week. Jeffrey Conroy, Jordan Dasch, Anthony Hartford, Nicholas Hausch, Christopher Overton, Jose Pacheco and Kevin Shea, all between the ages of 16 and 17 all Patchogue-Medford High School students. The young punks had attacked before. They went out a dozens of times  a year hunting Latinos, harassing them, shooting them with pellets, beating them. The others took the beatings and survived. Marcello Lucero did not. Marcelo Lucero, 38, who MORE

Another hate crime perpetrated against a Mexican Immigrant

 Posted by on 2009/10/17  Comments Off
Oct 172009
 
Another hate crime perpetrated against a Mexican Immigrant

A Mexican day laborer is hospitalized with brain damage after being attacked somewhere in Williamsburg or Bushwick by three black men shouting “wetback.” Mario Vera was riding his bike back home to Bushwick with groceries from a lower Manhattan food pantry when the young men hit him in the back of his head “with something hard” while yelling anti-immigrant slurs. The assault happened on September 23rd, but wasn’t reported until last Friday, because Vera is an undocumented immigrant afraid to go to the police. (NYPD policy prohibits officers from sharing law-abiding immigrants’ status with the Feds, but it has been known to happen.)

Xenophobic Christian Rabid Right Wing Conservative Conservative Christian Activist wounds three, kills two Hispanic students

 Posted by on 2009/02/28  Comments Off
Feb 282009
 
Xenophobic Christian Rabid Right Wing Conservative Conservative Christian Activist wounds three, kills two Hispanic students

High on Jesus, the hate speech of Michael Savage, Sena Hannity and others, Dannie Roy Baker went on a shooting spree at his apartment complex in Miramar Florida Thursday, wounding three, and killing two Chilean students in what is sparking outrage across Chile and other Latin American countries. There isn’t much about this shocking crime in the American newspapers today, but the Chilean media is buzzing about it Sebastián Mauricio Arizaga Suárez, 27, is in stable condition, Fransisco Javier Cofré Fernández, 25, is in critical condition and David Alonso Bilbao Meza is in good condition, according to Mike Burke, a spokesman for Sacred Heart Hospital. Two of their friends, Nicolás Pablo Corp Torres, 23, and Racine Balbontín Argandoña, 22, did MORE

Patchogue Caucasian Crew Charged with Year Long “Beaner Stompings” Rampage!

 Posted by on 2009/01/28  Comments Off
Jan 282009
 
Patchogue Caucasian Crew Charged with Year Long "Beaner Stompings" Rampage!

Long before prosecutors accused seven Patchogue-Medford High School students of taking part in a fatal, ethnically motivated attack on an Ecuadorean immigrant, the teens went on a yearlong campaign to batter and terrorize Latinos all over their community, according to an indictment unsealed in Riverhead Wednesday. In small groups with shifting members, the teens sent one Hispanic man after another to the hospital with injuries, prosecutors said. Here, according to the new indictments, are just a few highlights from 13 violent months: Last July, at least two of the teens beat a Hispanic man unconscious, stealing his money and shoes. In December, three of them harassed and menaced a lone Hispanic man with a pipe, telling him, “You’re dead.” In MORE

Assaults on Latinos Spur Inquiry

 Posted by on 2009/01/13  Comments Off
Jan 132009
 
Assaults on Latinos Spur Inquiry

Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into reports of a string of assaults against Latinos on Long Island, and are weighing whether to begin an inquiry into the Suffolk County Police Department’s handling of such crimes, a spokesman for the Justice Department said on Monday The spokesman, Scot Montrey, said the department was seeking to file criminal civil-rights charges against people accused of attacking Latinos. He declined to say which or how many incidents were under investigation. In a separate action, he said, the department’s special litigation division is reviewing whether an investigation of police practices is warranted. The announcement came just over two months after Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant, was killed in Patchogue, in Suffolk County, during an MORE

Harvesting Hate in Hard Economic Times

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Dec 162008
 
Harvesting Hate in Hard Economic Times

HATE DOES NOT EMERGE FROM A VACUUM. Nor could it thrive there, we might add. Just as many hands are required to bring about positive change in our culture, so are many energies and voices required to propagate negativity on a large scale. There is no doubt that a battle rages and that the heart of this nation is at stake. As of late, it is the Latino community catching the hate that has been unleashed upon the immigrant community. El Diaro/La Prensa gives the gruesome details: In July, Luis Ramirez was beaten to death by a gang in Shenandoah, Pa. In August, a Staten Island man rammed his vehicle into the storefronts of three Latino merchants. Last month, a MORE