No Excuses for Anti-Hispanic Hate Crimes
There are those who insist that there is no such thing as anti-Hispanic racism. First, they quip, there is no Hispanic “race” — and so, technically, there can be no racism against Hispanics. Besides, they claim — inaccurately — Hispanics in the United States didn’t experience the kind of historical discrimination endured by, say, African Americans. Even as the deniers bear witness to a national immigration debate that went from anti-immigrant to anti-Hispanic, they insist that America’s largest minority is no worse for wear.
A rash of recent anti-Hispanic hate crimes says otherwise.
- In a Staten Island neighborhood, 25-year-old Rodolfo Olmedo was attacked by a group of men shouting anti-Mexican epithets and bashed over the head with a wooden stick outside his home. Olmedo was hospitalized for five days and briefly lapsed into a coma. The suspects are African American. In the weeks that followed, there were ten more suspected anti-Hispanic bias attacks in the same neighborhood. Most of the suspects were described as young black men, and a grand jury indicted only one of seven people arrested on a hate-crime charge. According to news accounts, residents of Port Richmond — where an influx of newcomers has arrived from Latin America over the past decade — blame the attacks on the bad economy, high unemployment, and even the divisive debate over Arizona’s immigration law.
- In Baltimore, 51-year-old Martin Reyes was beat to death, and the suspect in the case — Jermaine R. Holley — is described as a mentally deranged teenager who reportedly told police he killed Reyes because of a pathological hatred toward “Mexicans.” According to police, Holley was being treated for schizophrenia. Police suspect Holley had stopped taking his anti-psychotic medications, and they say that it is at least plausible that the anti-immigrant hysteria demonizing people of Hispanic descent nationwide may have pushed him over the edge. In the weeks before the attacks, there were a number of other assaults on Latino immigrants in Baltimore. In some cases, the motive was robbery. But in others, the evidence suggests they were hate crimes.
Other anti-Hispanic hate crime victims, who were attacked years ago, are only now finding justice in the courts — even if they’re not here to see it.
- A sentence was finally handed down in the murder of 31-year-old Jose O. Sucuzhanay who, in 2008, was killed by 30-year-old Keith Phoenix in Brooklyn. Prosecutors insisted that Phoenix — who beat the Ecuadorean immigrant with a baseball bat — singled out Sucuzhanay for the beating because he was Hispanic. Phoenix was convicted, and he was recently sentenced to more than 30 years in prison.
- More sentences were handed down in the racially motivated stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero on Long Island in 2008. Four New York teens were sentenced for their role in the murder of the Ecuadorean immigrant. Anthony Hartford, Jordan Dasch, and Jose Pacheco, all 19 years old, will serve seven-year prison sentences. A fourth teen received a six-year sentence. In May, another defendant, 19-year-old Jeffrey Conroy, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stabbing Lucero. Conroy was convicted of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime. The teens admitted to taking part in what they called “beaner hopping,” where they would prowl the streets looking for Latino immigrants to attack.
Confronted with such barbarism, good people have choices to make. They can offer excuses for these heinous acts, or claim that these are isolated incidents. Some might even challenge the idea that there is such a thing as a “hate crime” and insist that it’s wrong to distinguish one class of victims from another.
Total rubbish. One of the reasons that haters who turn into bullies and murderers deserve so little leniency is because they don’t just brutalize the individuals they attack and the families they leave behind wounded and scarred. Armed with the deadly combination of ignorance and violence, they savage one of this country’s most important and valuable traditions. In fact, Mr. Jefferson considered it a founding principle:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
It doesn’t say “all U.S. citizens” or “all native-born Americans.” The people he was talking about were neither. It says: “all men.”
If someone is the country illegally — and it’s not clear that all the victims were — then they should be apprehended and deported by authorities, not beaten and killed by thugs.
In the heat of the immigration debate, some people seem to have forgotten that. It’s up to the rest of us to remind them.
lol once again a great piece by a race supremacist… The first 2 cases weren’t even anti-highspanish… they were anti-mexican… so their gone. As for the other cases probably heavily overblown and not meeting any real standards for a hate crime. Anyone says anything even remotely bad about a supposed race or country thats not majority white(non-highspanish) its a hate crime… of course “beat whitey night” no hate crime there… if fact may take months to even find a crime…
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100824/NEWS01/8240366/Police-say-it-s-very-possible-attacks-near-fairgrounds-had-racial-overtones
“Sgt. David Murillo stated in a report on Friday night, “On-duty officers at the fairgrounds advise there was a group of 30 to 40 individuals roaming the fairgrounds openly calling it ‘beat whitey night.’ ”
“There are indications that some of the fights – which appear to involve mostly teenagers and young adults – were racially motivated, police said.”
Really you think… of course stories like this don’t get spread over every news channel for days straight… unlike say the duke lacrosse case… they of course happen at a huge rate more then the cases you cite… a simple review of hate crimes shows this.
Racism is on the raise in the US… however white non-highspanish aren’t the cause… highspanish race supremacists and and blacks are the main causes… a simple review of crime records proves this beyond any doubt… and those records include heavily bias cases against non-highspainsh whites.
They’re a reason why the UCR and NBIRS don’t break down highspainsh white and white… one is because highspainsh is only a race in the same way nazi germans were a race…
Also this is a great argument
“It doesn’t say “all U.S. citizens” or “all native-born Americans.” The people he was talking about were neither. It says: “all men.””
So your saying our US Constitution applies to everyone? So your going to demand we invade every single country that put US citizens on trial because those trials didn’t meet the standards of the US right? For that matter all non-US trials you demand they be voided right?
What about US soldiers in military courts? Are you also saying that the US is by defacto the ruler of the world? That we need to enforce our Constitution on all countries?
If your not saying those things then your nothing but a racist hypocrite. The US Constitution applies strictly to US Citizens and those under the jurisdiction of the US… period. Someone crossing the border illegally is not under the jurisdiction of the US they are an invader… they should be shot at the border period.
edited for spelling and because it 3am and talking to racist like ruben makes me rage.
Above and beyond everything, everything..we need to enforce the immigration laws. Not make new ones, enforce the ones we have.. Help Arizona!!
Oh wait, that would be discrimination against someone that doesn’t belong here in the first place!!! we need to treat illegals like Mexico etc..would treat an American citizen.
That being said..no one should be killed because of who they are. However, if they were not there in the first place they would not be harmed.
O and PS heres some real racism….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm6ig4uTWPI&feature=player_embedded
“Maldonado, a U.S. Army combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, explains on his website that he became a U.S. citizen in 1995. But he said Secretary of State Robin Carnahan sent him a letter in May asking him to produce documentation.
“It said, ‘Hey, you have to prove you’re a citizen.’ I ignored it,” he said. “You know, Obama ignored it, so I figured I could get away with it, too.”
“They said no. I was the only one,” he said. “… I just don’t know, if I were running as a Democrat, would I have to prove the same thing? Or is there a more stringent process for the Republican candidates?” ”
I note how you didn’t bother to include that in your little racist rant… o wait doesn’t fit the agenda.
NO EXCUSES FOR ANY MORE RACIST ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
Ruben Navarrette Jr. seems to be going out of his way to ignore the harsh fact that these hate crimes are almost always committed by American blacks. The odds are that whites rarely violently attack Hispanics—especially for purely racist reasons. Black violence will also probably increase as Barack Obama’s poll numbers continue to drop. People like me were simply ignored before the presidential election. It was patently obvious that Obama’s election would worsen racial relations. The man had no interest whatsoever in getting the United States “past race”. On the contrary, Obama and perhaps most blacks graduating from out so-called finer universities are existentially committed to the non-stop use of the race card.
Well hell David, if these crimes are committed BY blacks ON Latinos, Asians, whites etc..there is no crime..it’s a part of their reparation goodies to beat up others, kill them, sell drugs,suck up all the clean air, etc.
It’s a right of passage you must remember and not condemn them, or hear about it on the news.
REVERSE that and all hell breaks loose!! the press would be hanging people from the rafters. And we wonder why we have problems with respect.
Well one could argue that hate crimes might exist but should not able to be prosecuted.
Because at last check crime was crime and it was illegal to prosecute based on someone’s THOUGHTS on the subject. It boils down to thought policing and attacking based on thoughts instead of actions.
Hate crime legislations are a joke made by people that want to add MORE to crime…as if that matters.
Of course, Ruben, because these illegals (and the cartels) pull their punches, too. And maybe we should let the government take care of it… only they won’t. If they would, perhaps there would be no “thugs”.
I seriously doubt that the average PJM reader has been an advocate for thuggish behaviour or racial hatred. I suggest you deliver this message to those in your own career branch who find gangsta rap authentic and creative. Then you could move on to those who make celebrities of coke-snorters like Paris Hilton; after all turf wars among drug dealers heat up the atmosphere. Move on a bit further and you might find some education experts who don’t want to hurt the self esteem of students by maintaining discipline (and teaching self discipline at the same time). I would also appeal to the radical feminists who have decided that fathers are unimportant in raising children. Finally you could take on La Raza’s often rather intemperate speech. Then you can come back and tell us what we are doing wrong.
Looking at criime stats for 2004, Mexico’s murder rate was 13.0 per 100,000 people, the USA’s was 5.6 per 100,000.
According to wikipedia, the highest rates of murders for various regions of the world are southern Africa (37.3 murders per 100,000), Central America (29.3), South America (25.9)…North America is way down the list (6.5 murders per 100,000).
Also, according to wikipedia, the countries with the highest murder rates are (starting with the worst): Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Guatemala, South Africa, Colombia, Belize, Brazil, the Dominican Republic.
Notice a pattern there? Why, goodness me, most of those countries just happen to be…mainly Hispanic! Go figure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate
If you’re worried about ethnic groups and killings, might want to start with your own ethnic group, sport.
Want to know the best (legal) way to improve America’s murder rate? Kick all the Hispanic illegals out, because it turn out that when they come to America, they bring their murderous culture along with them (unless you believe that all the murderers are staying home…which I kind of doubt is the case), and your excellent Hispanic culture produces a lot more violence than Anglo culture does…or so the statistics imply.
Other than that, there’s not much we can do except arrest killers and toss them in jail or execute them…and we already do that.
OTOH, look at murder rates per U.S. city via Wiki you’ll find that seriously Hispanic El Paso has a murder rate of 2.8 per 100,000 while the rate in rather non-Hispanic Detroit is 37.4. Maybe it’s the northern border that’s a problem.
Yeah, and if you take a stroll across the border into seriously Hispanic Juarez you’ll be standing in the city that has the highest murder rate in the world…or so says wiki.
“Criminal activity in the domestic metropolitan area of Juárez has increased dramatically since the rise of maquiladoras and especially following the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994[citation needed], two factors which attracted both international commerce and many younger women and their families to Juárez in search of better economic opportunities. Violence towards women in the municipality has increased dramatically in the past twenty years;[18] since the early nineties there have been approximately 600 femicides[19] and at least 3000 missing women.[18] Escalating turf wars between the rival Juárez and Sinaloa Cartels have led to increasingly brutal violence in the city since the mid-2000s.”
“The Juárez police department had a force of approximately 800 officers in September 2008, following the removal of a third of its human resources for various reasons. Recruitment goals set by the department called for the force to more than double.[20] Juárez Citizens Command threatened to take action to attempt to put a stop to all the perpetrators of violence while government officials expressed concern that such vigilantism would contribute to further instability and violence.[21] In response to the increasing violence in the city the military and Federal Police’s presence had been increased almost twofold. As of March 2009 at least 4500 soldiers and federal police were in the city attempting to curtail mostly drug cartel related violence.[22] By August 2009 there were more than 7500 federal troops augmented by an expanded and highly restaffed municipal force.[23] In the year leading up to August 2009 Juárez’s murder rate was the highest reported in the world, exceeding the holders of the second and third highest rates, Caracas and New Orleans respectively, by more than 25%. The rate of 130 murders per 100,000 inhabitants is the same as Caracas’ 2008 statistic for same period.[24]“–wiki
Looking at the big picture, I think you would have to say that violence (on a personal level) carried out by Hispanics is a pretty big problem. Violence carried out by other ethnic groups against Hispanics…not so much of a problem, unless you want to believe that Hispanic nations have really high homicide rates because other ethnic groups are going there and committing anti-Hispanic murders.
Maybe a bunch of mean old Anglo Tea Partiers are flying down to Juarez, Bogota and Caracas to shoot Hispanics. I’m betting not, though.
What? Criminal activity increased south of the border after the passage of NAFTA in 1994? C’mon everybody, say it together….CLINTON’S FAULT!
Yeah, and if you take a stroll across the border into seriously Hispanic Juarez you’ll be standing in the city that has the highest murder rate in the world…or so says wiki.
So are you saying the problem is Hispanics or are you saying the problem is Mexico’s not-so-law-abiding legal system? Or maybe you are saying it’s because law-aiding Mexicans are forbidden from having personal protection in the form of firearms?
Regardless, violent crime by Hispanics in the U.S. doesn’t seem to be as epidemic as some make it out to be. Why does El Paso have such a low murder rate? And of the other low-murder cities on the list, Lincoln, Neb. & Honolulu don’t have significant Hispanic populations but Henderson, Nev. & Plano, Texas & Chandler, AZ certainly do.
More interestingly, of the ultra-high-murder cities (over 30 per 100,000) I didn’t pick up any with major Hispanic populations.
YOu mean the islamic sector of the US? What does that tell you?
Its not being Hispanic that is the problem, its the activities of 70 years of Marxist revolutionaries and the organizations that they have spawned such as the drug cartels.
“Its not being Hispanic that is the problem, its the activities of 70 years of Marxist revolutionaries and the organizations that they have spawned such as the drug cartels.”
Excellent point. It just so happens that most Hispanic nations have very high murder rates, however there are two exceptions, and both those countries have experienced fairly intense, long term anti-communist purges, namely Spain (murder rate 1.2 per 100,000 people), and Chile (1.6 murders per 100,000 people).
You might just be onto something there.
There are no excuses for anti hispanic hate crimes, but there isn’t a wave of hate crimes sweeping across the land like a tidal wave. Pro amnesty groups (I have to admit, correctly) assert that the fears over criminal illegals infilitrating the country is overblown. The same is true for concerns about hate crime waves. The chances of you getting raped, murdered, or maimed by criminal illegals or racists in this country is extraordinarily small. Sensationalism can affect both sides.
The Staten Island incident strikes me as violence stemming from black vs. brown tension, which predates SB 1070 in this country by decades. I doubt these black thugs were conservatives concerned over border security. And not to excuse the black kids who did this, but framing this as “anti hispanic hate” is as skewed as accusing other Latinos who call Asians “Chinos” and rob their stores as committing “anti Asian hate”. We can take the usual American route and label the other side as “racist” at the faintest perception of slight and “discrimination” and be done with it, or confront the deeper cultural misuderstanding, stereotypes and justifiable grievances or anger one side might have against the another. That’s the lesson learned from the 92 LA riots.
The second example was about a mentally disturbed youth. What that has to do with the AZ law, I’m not sure.
So the evidence that suggests a “rash of anti hispanic hate crimes” is either a symptom of existing strife between two minority classes, or a few deranged individuals who harmed Latinos. (One of the kids is named “Jose”) SB 1070 MIGHT have influenced these crimes. Not convincing.
yeah I agree ruben. The problem you dont get tho is what do we do when they refuse to leave? you seem to thing that we should just lie back and let criminals and thugs come over. murder rape kil steal at will. then slap their wrist, say”now now font do that” and push them over the border, only to repeat this proccess a few months later…with the same person. what do you expect? the same people over and over. the govt not only NOT doing anything, but giving illegals more rights and privlidges than us at the cost of us. Sorry ruben, but its beggining to seem that the only way to keep these peole out is to do it permanently. I know you think we should have no control over who comes and goes as long as its latin americans. But us evil racist whites are tired of paying to be enslaved. This is OUR country this is AMERICA not mexico, not cuba, not elsalvador not china not germany. As a citizen i welcome ALL who wish to come here LEGALLY. but ill be dammed if ill be forced to pay for illegals who break the law then call me ‘racist’ for not wanting to support them or for wanting them to obey the rules. You dont want violence, then please ruben. WISE UP. tell illegal brothers and sisters to leave. Support AZ, support a strong border. support immigration. but dont pretend that a mass movement to reconqer America and plunder her is some sort of noble thing. It is an invasion PERIOD and if they will not leave WE SHALL REMOVE THEM BY ANY AND ALL MEANS AT OUR DISPOSAL! when a rober gets shot commiting a crime you blame the criminal not the victim
Wow, that wind sure is noisy today. Now if someone were saying ethnic violence should be unacceptable in this country, they’d be right as rain, but if it was Ruben Navarette–who thinks enforcing the immigration laws would be a hate crime–then saying that would have no meaning at all.
Too bad PJM can’t find someone with credibility to post a blatant tautology, but then they have better sense than that…
I would like to hear the rational behind NOT enforcing the law…RUBIN???
Seriously, articles and niceties aside..what is the rational to not enforce the law of our country?
Ruben, I certainly have sympathy for the victims of these crimes and their families. No one should be the victim of thuggery. But what is your point Ruben? To me it appears as though you are intimating that those who think our borders should be protected and our laws enforced are somehow responsible for these thugs. Or even that we constructively committed these crimes ourselves. Well Ruben, I can assure you, we are completely innocent. The individuals who perpetrated these crimes are the guilty ones and had no help or encouragement from us.
By the way Ruben, when were hispanics ever slaves in this country? Give me a break.
One of the anti-hispanic “hate crimes” mentioned seems to have had hispanic perpetrators.
The rest seem to have been committed by blacks. I have heard that blacks and hispanic communities are hostile toward each other. Blacks experience flight when hispanics move into a neighbourhood the same way whites do when blacks move into one.
Black on Brown violence, but we mustn’t tell the truth. Like leaving the political tag off Democratic law breakers, we cannot say what is really happening and who the real criminals are.
Ruben, is there a reason that you a jabbing a thumb in the eye of PJM readers here? If your premise wishes to suggest that violence is not an appropriate response to illegal immigration, then I believe that virtually everyone would agree. An otherwise peaceful person entering the country illegally should not be subject to vigilante violence, period.
The rest of your arguments are so filled with fallacy, hyperbole, false attributions, fractured syllogisms, and bootstrapped logic your credibility is increasingly shattered with each passing sentence.
A gang of marauding African Americans in Staten Island engages in a “turf” war, gate guarding their neighborhood against “invasion” by “Hispanics” and you attribute that as somehow related to PJM readers and commenters…how, exactly.
Look, there are dozens and dozens and dozens of Hispanic gangs that go marauding and committing heinous crimes. In the cottage industry of leftist victimhood…when they do so against African Americans…these “Hispanic” gangs often mysteriously lose their “identity” and apparently shades of pigment in the process…and the “news” and “reporting” organizations begin to call them “white”. How does that work, Ruben?
According to news accounts, residents of Port Richmond — where an influx of newcomers has arrived from Latin America over the past decade — blame the attacks on the bad economy, high unemployment, and even the divisive debate over Arizona’s immigration law .
So, “news accounts” suggest this, Ruben? The JournoList crowd and the 88% that slant the “facts” toward blaming non-leftists, that engage in “majority bashing” at every turn…this…is your basis for suggesting that the blame for marauding neighborhood toughs in an African American neighborhood turf guarded their domain? Are you serious, Ruben?
Your second “proof” is a mentally deranged, off his medications, not right in the head teenager…and you make the following disjointed bootstrapping canard: “they” say that it is at least plausible that the anti-immigrant hysteria demonizing people of Hispanic descent nationwide may have pushed him over the edge. In the weeks before the attacks, there were a number of other assaults on Latino immigrants in Baltimore. In some cases, the motive was robbery. But in others, the evidence suggests they were hate crimes.
“At least plausible”, “anti-immigrant ‘hysteria’”, “demonizing people of Hispanic descent nationwide”, “MAY HAVE pushed him over the edge”, the evidence “suggests”….
Ruben, the evidence suggests that you are stretching credulity to impart any kind of national motive for violence against “Hispanics” by anyone other than street toughs and quite possibly gang activity in Baltimore and Staten Island. And, the work of one teenager, off his meds, who is incapable of clear thought and probably doesn’t have the mens rea to commit a crime against anyone…if his derangement believed that the Pope was ordering him followed, he wouldn’t be anti-Catholic, Ruben….it would simply mean his derangement took that direction, nothing more.
And, Ruben….a guy named “Jose Pacheco” committed a hate crime against Hispanics? Uh, Ruben…I don’t know this guy. Maybe he’s from Shaker Heights, Ohio and is a pasty little white kid who took on a different name to appear tougher than he is when he moved to a new neighborhood…but on the face of it, Ruben…it doesn’t appear that way at first blush.
In neighborhoods where African Americans bump up against neighborhoods predominantly “Hispanic”, there are clashes each and every day in this country, Ruben.
Statistics for number and percent of gang members by race/ethnicity:
* Black/African-American Gang members: 31% or about 310,000
* Hispanic Gang members: 47% or about 470,000
* white/caucasian gang members: 13% or about 130,000
* Asian gang members: 7% or about 70,000
In 2006 four members of a Hispanic gang in Los Angeles are convicted of federal hate crimes for the cold-blooded slaying of a black man in their neighborhood.
In Maryland, state corrections officials have begun a new study of prison gangs, including the growing numbers of Spanish-speaking gang members, amid mounting violence against prison workers.
A war between Hispanic and black prison gangs set off a series of riots across California that year leaving two dead and more than 100 were injured.
National crime statistics released by the FBI show homicides up 5 percent. But the real story, say experts, is what is happening in urban pockets across the country, where murders – increasingly across racial lines – are way up.
In Philadelphia’s 12th Police District shootings have almost doubled
In Boston, the homicide rate is soaring.
In Orlando, the homicide count reached 37, surpassing the city’s previous record.
All of this follows a national trend of decreasing violent crime until recently.
The biggest increase in violence is in smaller cities where gang and drug problems are relatively new. In 2005, jurisdictions with populations between 50,000 and 250,000 saw homicide increases of about 12.5 percent – far larger than the big cities, says David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
“Those numbers tell only part of the story,” he said. “Serious crime is concentrated in certain areas within poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods. For people who live in the Trinidad area of Washington, in the Nickerson Gardens housing complex in South Los Angeles and on Magnolia Street in Boston, the citywide statistics have always been meaningless. Their neighborhoods are war zones.”
More people are noticing that much of the violence is at least partly racially motivated and tied directly to the rapid increase in Hispanic population over the last decade – much of it due to illegal immigration.
L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca cited tensions between black and Hispanic gangs for his decision to redeploy deputies to the Compton area, where four people were killed in 20 gang shootings during one July weekend.
In one high-profile example of what’s happening on the city streets of Los Angeles, Alejandro “Bird” Martinez and three other Hispanic gang members were joyriding in a stolen van when they came upon a black man parking his car. According to court testimony, they decided to kill him. Three of the four shot Kenneth Kurry Wilson with a .357-caliber revolver, a 9 mm semiautomatic and a 12-gauge shotgun.
Martinez and three other members of the Avenues, a Hispanic gang, were convicted of federal hate crimes. It is believed to be the first case in which the U.S. Justice Department has prosecuted a minority gang as a hate group, using laws traditionally employed to go only after white supremacist groups like skinheads and the Ku Klux Klan.
Recently, a Hispanic teen was murdered by a black assailant who, witnesses said, yelled a gang name as he fled. On June 30, a pair of black gunmen killed three Hispanics, prompting black and Hispanic leaders to call an emergency summit on how to call a halt to the bloodbath in the streets of L.A.
Observers suggest the situation on the streets is complicated by the numbers of gang members returning from prison, where joining a race-based gang is often a matter of survival.
In the case of the Avenues gang, an informant told the FBI members had received an order from the Mexican Mafia prison gang to kill all blacks on sight in their mainly Hispanic neighborhood. Leading up to Wilson’s murder, members of the Avenues terrorized other blacks, shooting a 15-year-old boy on a bike, pistol-whipping a jogger and drawing outlines of human bodies in a black family’s driveway, according to news reports.
Gang feuds were historically intra-racial rather than interracial. But that situation began to change with the heavy influx of Hispanics in some previously predominantly black neighborhoods.
For instance, in the late 1990s, newly arrived Hispanics began moving into the traditionally black communities of Compton and South Los Angeles. An area that was 80 percent black and 20 percent Hispanic is now 60 percent Hispanic, 40 percent black.
The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations’ latest human rights report said there were 41 recorded cases of interracial gang-related hate crime in 2004. But commissioners agreed the real number would be much higher if victims were not afraid to go to the police.
“In the overwhelming number of these cases, Latino gang members spontaneously attacked African-American victims who had no gang affiliation,” the commission wrote.
It said conflicts between racially based prison gangs like the Mexican Mafia “can have a significant impact on racialized gang violence in L.A. County and contribute to the levels of hate violence involving gangs.”
Meanwhile, in Maryland, officials are increasingly concerned about the impact of growing numbers of Hispanic gang members in state prisons.
Karen V. Poe, spokeswoman for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said the newly arrived Hispanic gangs – like MS-13 – pose a new set of problems in prison.
“They’re not your Bloods and Crips,” Poe said. “We need to look at communicating with them, understanding what they’re saying to one another.”
Inside the prisons, tensions are higher than ever because of turf wars between the competing gangs, said Ronald E. Smith, a former Maryland correctional officer who is now a labor relations specialist with a prison workers’ union.
“Crips, Bloods, the Black Guerrilla Family, MS-13 – all these gangs are in there and they’re all fighting for territory and control of all the drugs that come into the prison, the flow of money – anything they can take to show that they have the authority there,” he told the Associated Press.
Smith said about two dozen inmates from competing gangs were involved in a riot inside the medium-security Maryland Correctional Training Center near Hagerstown. Meanwhile, the rate of assaults on correctional officers in the state’s maximum-security prisons nearly doubled from about 3.4 per 100 inmates in 2004 to 6.6 in 2005, according to a budget analysis by the nonpartisan Department of Legislative Services.
These all pre-date the Arizona law on immigration control, Ruben. Turf war, drugs, DTO’s, gun smuggling…lead to vicious crimes, Ruben. Playing the “innocent victim” card is misleading and disingenuous.
Virtually nobody at PJM suggests that vigilante violence is an answer to halting illegal immigration. Nobody. That would be the wrong answer…to the wrong question.
“If your premise wishes to suggest that violence is not an appropriate response to illegal immigration, then I believe that virtually everyone would agree”
Well, Ted Nugent doesn’t agree, and he’s one of the poster boys for “real Americans.” He says illegal aliens should be shot on sight. And you didn’t have to go any farther than the Restoring Honor rally to find those who agree.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/29/glenn-beck-restoring-hono_n_698172.html
Back up to 1,600 words again, I see. That’s OK. Relapses happen.
OMG, Ted Nugent says we should shoot illegals on sight. Let’s all fret over phantom rise in hate crime and ramblings by second rate celebrities. The absense of any real, widespread violence towards Lations, and the existence of conflict between blacks and Latinos – why, forget about THAT.
Lee, you may not have noticed that I have picked up my own personal “stalker” troll. Apparently, he/she/it does not have a firm grasp of the phrase “virtually everyone” and loves to count words, apparently an OCD problem as well.
Suffering from the same malady as all other brain dead leftists, fact scratched fever.
“fact scratched fever” . . . CF, bleachy, el bleacherino . . . c’mon, man, that doesn’t work. It’s bland and clumsy. Sorry, but I call em as I see em, which is at the root of your disdain. You just can’t handle being challenged. Can’t handle a little disagreement. Don’t want to be held accountable for the group think judgments you people foist upon others. Much easier when everyone agrees, isn’t it? But it ain’t that easy. Don’t take it personally. You’re just a deserving illustration of the enemy.
Oh sure…deport them and listen to the howling when they are killed off by the shakedown artists in their own countries. Sealing the border is still the best option with deportation only after serving a prison sentence for violators in one of Sheriff Joe’s Spa and Rehabilitation programs in the desert.
Crime rate has dropped in Florida…here in Lee county we see the Sheriff and leftist News-Press touting better enforcement as the reason. In fact the reason is “Self Deportation”. Births are off by 19% and higher in the anchor baby industry. School enrollment is down. Those lines actually parallel the drop in the crime rate.
I’m not convinced that the immigration debate has caused a spike in ant-Hispanic violence but hate crimes are always especially distressing.
Here in New York, Hispanics are spirited and thriving folks getting ahead the American way. Hispanic neighborhoods may be poor but they are busy places with clean restaurants and shops and ordinary people pursuing their various small private enterprises. Hostility toward America or resentment of Whites is nowhere evident.
This is in stark contrast to nearby African American neighborhoods which are moribund, depressing places with a significant number of vacant shops and not much going on in the way of business save in the chain fast food franchises which are overrepresented.
I have no experience of La Raza types and I believe national borders should be respected and those here illegally deported. But the Hispanics I see day-in-day-out appear to be loyal productive citizens getting ahead like everyone else.
Some of those commenting above need to consider that young men of Puerto Rican descent accounted for the highest number of American casualties in the Vietnam War.
Well said.
Some of the comments above are pure white identity hate speech. White identity is another form of race based victimhood culture, which masquerades itself as American patriotism.
Sometimes I wonder about this site.
No, “white identity” is mostly a construct of the Left in order to justify their own racial obsessions. It’s the Left that relies on racial division and so they relentlessly promote the concept of “whiteness.”
The innocent killing of these poor illegals is just a statistical fact. The best thing to do to avoid this end result is to migrate to a new part of the world “legally”or stay put in your place of birth. It is also common knowledge that minority groups will fight agaisnt each other for domination of territory. Blacks(they consider themselves to be the first minority in this country) are going to continue to be extremetely violent towards Hispanics(enjoying Civil Rights at the expense of Blacks) in order to dominate their territory. Ex.: Los Angeles.
This article is a call to the Americans’ heart but sadly you failed to focus on the main issue which is that these people they came here illegally.
Perhaps there is an element of frustration with the refusal of the justice department to enforce immigration laws?
No man or woman should be subject to violence based on race or any other identifying characteristic (with the possible exception of Congress), but neither should any race or group be allocated protected status.
An armed society is a polite society. Who would lead the attack, knowing he would be the first to be shot?
I agree, there is no excuse for violence, except in self defense. That being said, demanding border control is not racist. Period. And ignorant people who can’t think beyond what they are told to think and say by leftist open borders types are hopelessly intellectually disengaged.
What Americans have to come to realize is that D.C. has been playing games with us, we collectively have been placed in a sleeper hold to keep us out of the fight. What fight? The fight for power.
Americans hold the power in this nation. And like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz we wear the Ruby slippers. When Americans come to realize that we are a nation that has some common interests despite our individual cultural differences and we come together on that basis we will once again have control where it belongs, in our hands.
I don’t hate any race. People make choices. Some good and some bad. I think we should round up ALL illegals and send them home. Period. I don’t care if they are from South America, Central America, Cuba, Europe, the Middle East, Russia or China. They made a bad choice to break the law. Consequences follow choices. Some god and some bad.
Rueben Navarette is the embodiment of a racist hate crime against America.
“No Excuses for Anti-Hispanic Hate Crimes”
And no excuses for Hispanics crossing America’s borders illegally. Ship them back to their countries of origin and we won’t have a problem, will we?
cfbleachers: awesome response, although we shouldn’t paint with a broad brush, its the affiliations of the aforementioned people that are a problem. Reuben its the criminal and their organizations we have a problem with, not the color.
greetings , sick of katrine , so ill offer illegal immigrant entry instead, which practically all are wetbacks, they will never be stoped completly, because the u.s. government is not arizona , but as for the 13 million already here , even most of them need an attitude adjustment ! the 14th amendment allows them to have babies here that automatically become americans legally ! while at least one parent is illegal, so, a mexi jumps fence , screws a white girl, has some babies , you think he’s going back ? other countries dont put up with this, “only in america”
And just forget about the 9000 American citizens that are killed each year by illegals?
The solution is to seal the border, cut off welfare, have huge fines for hiring illegals, and the damned illegals will be forced to leave.
Say no to gangs, drug, rapes, welfare mooching, just go back to Mexico!
…and no birthright citizenship for the children of illegals!
The vast majority of ethnic related crimes are against Jews. Ruben, are you a Jew hater? Prove you’re not.
Prove your’e not a Jew hater?
Now that’s the kind of dialectic we expect from the right. Pure logic and argumentation at its best. Maybe you should ask Billy Graham that question.
Illegals aren’t prepared to live in a civilized society. They turned Mexico into hell on earth and want to do the same here. In fact, any area, that is mostly Mexican is hell on earth here too!
I see neal has a little cat scratch fever.
Neal, you clearly would not know civilized if you saw it. As, they say, it takes one to know one.
Oh, come on, people. Let’s at least try to try to take a good faith shot a some of the mess Navarette is going after.. One problem is “infiltration” colloquially supplanted by the misuse of the term “immigration” because immigration (though poorly structured and poorly operated) is specifically a lawful process. Aliens here unlawfully are not immigrants, they are “infiltrators”. There are no immigrants here illegally. The persons here illegally have infiltrated, not immigrated. Our national crisis is one of infiltration, selective and willful non-enforcement, duplicity, legislative incompetence and bureaucratic and political corruption. The duplicity and inarticulateness of the effort to correct it has been the biggest political failure of all.
Navarette makes a great point about irony and duplicity; that selective enforcement of the laws and incompetent process are complicit in these violent crimes and that the said duplicity is itself of a criminal nature. Navarette correctly notes these violent crimes are too frequently committed by “our official victim class” of multiracial persons pretending to be a singular particular race. The problem of “the carpetbagger class” is interwoven with our nation’s predatory and wildly destructive prohibition policies that have directly produced the amplified economic habitat that provides the franchise and monopoly for the criminal gangs and cartels engaged in smuggled infiltration of adulterated drugs, humans and only g_d knows what else.
Our federal Church of the Latter Day Phrenologists has concocted a ridiculous but profoundly toxic stew of disordered terms and mnemonics in the name of Affirmative Action and identity politics based in race. This has done much to manipulate adversely our policies and jam the national discourse. We have seen examples of this disordered, implanted rhetoric nearly every day in our modern media.
I think Navarette has done a good thing here. I think we need to be open minded and avoid the temptation of concretized thought and cliche served up for mass consumption. This too does its part to keep our public in the ditch so self-perpetuating ruling class interests can continue to consolidate control of the national government.
Part of the structural problem here is our law treats corporations as persons. These corporate persons, have infiltrated our legislatures while we have been obsessed by things like infiltrators at the border. But aren’t our legislatures are as dysfunctional as our borders because the corporate infiltrators have displaced our citizens? Have you tried to see an elected representative as an individual not part of a non-profit or for profit corporate entity? It’s nearly impossible. This has happened in part because the developing balance of legislative remedy has been arrested in favor of foundations, institutions, NGOs and governmental organizations, non-profit sand publicly-traded corporate interests which clog the halls of our legislatures in search of more political favor that will tax you for what hits their pocket.
Our domestic corporations are alien persons; non-human persons and should be formally defined and treated as such because they are not human. Because they are non-human, they should not be “citizens”. Non-citizens should have no more than a very limited voice and very limited involvement in our political system. But we now live in an age when non-human alien persons dominate and enjoy significant control over our political campaign and legislative processes.
The subjects of Navarette’s tome are include more than the infiltrators and thugs wreaking violent crime on American citizens. Our government has an even bigger problem of infiltration than our borders do from alien corporations, domestic and not, now dominating access to our legislatures, agencies and policy mechanisms; alien corporations controlled by an elite few of American and foreign citizens. This is a feudal structure; an inherently predatory system which has historically threatened and marginalized individual human liberty.
We should thank Navarette for his passion and his faithful effort on this topic. Libertarian ideals unfortunately remain in the political backwaters in part because too many of our creed are so prone to throwing out the good in the name of the perfect. That needs to stop.
We need to do better at opening our minds and our eyes to the broader purpose in defending individual liberty and the personal challenges we collectively face in mutualism and build constructive consensus about what can be done.
Extremism in the defense of liberty may be no vice, but Hubris is. This is no time to fiddle. Our Rome is burning.
http://www.allvoives.com/6631371 read this column
Neal:
Immigrants did not turn Mexico in a ‘hell on earth’. Illegal immigrants are fleeing a hideous mess created by people with money and power that they have no means of combating.
They are people like us. Or at least people like me born to lower class parents. Unlike me they did not have access to free and vibrant society. They are for the most part Christians like we are.
As to the criminal element. Thats our part for having weak police protection. Gangsters of all colors ought to have a swift and undiginifed escort to a jail that is not run by other gangsters.
Again, something we as well of children of the American Revolution should have balls to provide.
Ignorance at its finest… the majority of the ppl leaving mexico to work in the US support the mexican system… the idea that they are somehow “fleeing the hell that is mexico to bring themselves up in the world by adopting the principles of the US” is propaganda at its finest.
Yes many ppl flee many countries to come here because they believe in the principles of the US and the US Constitution… mexicans are not those ppl. They come demanding free stuff and the right to oppress others through racism and bigotry.
Do you know how many mexican live in the US? Last count it was roughly 20% of the total number of mexican citizens…. if they really cared they would revolt in mexican and turn mexico into the US… instead they come here to turn the US into mexico. The founders of this country fought and died to be free… I know asking the racist supremacist mexicans to do the same is far to much…
The reason why mexico is a hell hole is because mexicans live there… period.
I think I am going to look into this new technology called ‘spell-check’.
“First, they quip, there is no Hispanic “race” — and so, technically, there can be no racism against Hispanics.”
That’s not a ‘quip’ it’s a FACT. Since when does speaking (some white European’s) language make you a different race? It’s like gay ‘marriage’, there’s no such thing since it’s an oxymoron and yet we have to hear about it 24/7. The liberals always say that people in countries we “invade” all hate us and rightfully want us all dead (whether true or not). Does that make them all racists? These people are invading our country! If it’s an excuse to hate in Iraq, why isn’t it here?
I guess all people who speak English must be of a different and far inferior ‘race’, right? If a white (aka Caucasian) person is born in Mexico and speaks Spanish, is he a part of La raza or is it reserved for anyone who doesn’t look white? If a black person speaks Spanish, which race box does he check off on the free for anyone who isn’t white form?
If LA RAZA,(the race) is so superior, why do most of the people who belong to it come from miserable crime and poverty infested 3rd world s**t holes and it seems to spread to where ever they happen to be? I’d think such a superior race would have a booming economy and be a world super power….not invading other countries to live on welfare. Why is it that claiming your own race (real or imaginary) is superior is OK as long as you’re not white?
Maybe it’s the refusal or inability to learn our language or the fact that they turn where they go into exactly what they left or simply because they don’t belong here, not their ‘race’ that makes people hate them. Since hating criminals isn’t a “hate crime” (yet), you have to turn it into one. I guess the race card is printed in Spanish too, just like every other damn thing.
Mr. Navarrete, I’m an immigrant from the Dominican Republic and as such part of the Hispanic minority (although I purposely did not fill the race question in the last census). How can you say that Jermaine R. Holley killing of Martin Reyes in Baltimore is an anti-Hispanic hate crime when Mr. Holley is “described as a mentally deranged” was “being treated for schizophrenia” and even the police said that he was not taking his medication? This particular case undermines the case that your are trying to make.
Don’t they have proof readers here..?
@Plutarch, #29.
“The duplicity and inarticulateness of the effort to correct it has been the biggest political failure of all.”
Ruben is a dependable purveyor of duplicity about this topic, and you’ll have to point out any particular degree of inarticulateness from the deport them crowd. The political tin ears so far have all been on the amnesty side of things.
@ the Editor, RE the subtitle.
On the assumption that the PJM Editor picked the subtitle.
“People in the country illegally should be apprehended and deported by authorities, not beaten and killed by thugs.”
I have to wonder if you haven’t heard an anguished cry from Ruben, who to go by his past diatribes thinks unlimited Hispanic immigration is something America should get down on it’s knees and thank God for, and that the first clause of that subtitle is prima facie evidence of RAAAACIIISSSMMMM!
I eagerly await the response from Mexicans when this article—slightly edited to suggest that Mexicans should not beat and kill people instead of deporting them—is published in Spanish on a Mexican website.
These crimes can be attributed to the refusal of the federal government to enforce immigration law. People frustrated by the federal government’s lack of action lash out at the manifestation of this refusal, the illegal immigrant, because the federal government is an untouchable “other” that one can’t rightly express anger against.
When I was in 8th grade I lived in a small town in AZ. My first girlfriend was a Mexican-American. Her name was Nancy and she spoke no Spanish. I never gave her ethnicity any thought. Most of the town was Hispanic or Navajo Indian. Now whenever I see a Hispanic or hear Spanish I get very angry because more than likely the person I hear is likely to be an illegal. All I want to do is shout at them to get the HE!! out of my country. Of course I don’t but I can understand the anger American citizens feel toward individual Hispanics as a result of our lack of an immigration policy. Actually the policy of the Left is to bring in as many poor illegals as possible to add to their voter rolls. We all know that truth and that too is cause for so much anger towards Hispanics. If Ruben et al want to reduce this anger then they should come out in support of an immigration policy that doesn’t grant amnesty or favors Mexico over the rest of the world.
‘Well, Ted Nugent doesn’t agree, and he’s one of the poster boys for “real Americans.” He says illegal aliens should be shot on sight.’–Betty the Troll
I doubt that Ted Nugent said any such thing.
Always willing to be convinced though.
Provide a quote.
I agree with you Ruben, there is no excuse, but your beef is with a Federal government that sandbags enforcing the border and deporting illegal immigrants. Unlike those democratic and republican CEO’s of the fortune five hundred, people who do “hate crimes” are not treated with kid gloves and sentenced to Club Feds with the rest of the “white collar” criminals who made their ill gotten money with the pen and lap top. Gee, I wonder how many of those baby boomer CEOs and politically appointed Federal department heads got amnesty for dodging the Vietnam era draft when their immunity (exemptions) expired?
this guy should go back to somewhere in latin america too
anybody who feels like he has to call his own book “a darker shade of crimson” sees nothing but color – stop crying maricon and go back to where you feel like the majority
enough with the colors and ethnicities!
ya no llores buey – largate!
Another dishonest rant by this guy. Thank you PJM for allowing these people to be read and seen for the intellectually dishonest and void of credibility racist they are.
When you have to lie Ruben you cast away any credibility you have and show that integrity is not what you are about.
I don’t see that Ruben has deigned to respond to any of the good points brought up regarding his rant. Perhaps, being a member of the old guard newspaper and TV infotainment cabal, he just doesn’t feel PJM readers worthy responding to. He’s spoken, so just shut up and be satisfied. To quote Ruben, anything that differs from his opinion is “Total Rubbish”.
Ruben has tried many times to best the ppl who comment in his posts… he has failed badly and much like rick moron will not engage in any debate because he has always lost and no just deals with the reality that he always will. Ppl used to be much more “tolerant” of his near open racism when he would at least attempt to defend his points logically and without playing the race card for everything… if you read his last o 20 posts its just race card, race card, etc, etc, etc. No reality… he’s like hitler screaming about those evil juds.
When politicians, usually Republicans, Scare TheCrap out of Whites, African/Mexican Americans, all immigrants, The Pecking Order is engaged .. And those with the most fear, troll the others , hunt the others down, like animals and brutalize and kill .. To make themselves feel more superior and less afraid .. And this is what lack of Self-Worth, Self-Esteem, & Inner Power can produce… Ignorance&Brutality.
What about the people beaten and killed by illegals?
Hate crimes are deplorable. There is rampant racism and color bias within the Hispanic community which mirrors the attitudes from Mexico to the tip of South America. Non- Hispanic Black Americans are not all gang members and the hate crimes they experience in Latino/ illegal immigrant communities are similiar to pre-civil rights movement attitudes. If a Black American male enters the wrong Latino/ illegal immigrant neighborhood, he can experience a life experience similar to his great-grandfather in the deep South. He may not live to talk about it. In Los Angeles, they should publish a guide so that we can at least warn our men to be cautious when entering or don’t enter at all. The authorities will not do that for 16-year-old Chris Lynch, 14-year-old Cheryl Green, and the young Shaw teenager are just collateral damage as we try to everything to everybody.
Ruben has no problem with “Hispanics” being killed. As long as it’s death at the hands of a fellow ethnic who didn’t “hate”. Has anyone told this man how asinine he sounds?
It is important to note that this is not necessarily “racism” against hispanics, per se, but rather gang-related turf fighting. The vast majoirty of these incidents are black gang on hispanic gang retaliatroy fighting, or linked to some degree
Ah, yes, the noble concept of a hate-crime.
If I kill someone who is of the same ethnicity, cultural background and religion, I should serve fewer years in gaol than if I slay someone who’s different, right? It’s a lesser crime, to kill someone I like, evidently. I’m sure that the feelings of someone being murdered by a relative—in an “honour killing”, for example—are almost contented compared with someone who’s being murdered by a a prejudiced stranger.
Next time I murder someone of a different race or sexual orientation or nationality, I’ll ensure that witnesses hear that I’m killing out of love. “Take that, you whom I value and esteem! I love you!”
Well, I’m one of those people; however, I’m prepared to concede that I could be mistaken.
All right, I’m clearly in the wrong, and I’m about to see cogent arguments based on evidence.
Right, murder and other crimes of violence and brutality should be against the law—oh, wait, they are—; any more arguments in support of special penalties for “hate crimes”?
No.
I have no use for hate crimes, or any crimes for that matter. All people have human rights. These views are shared by 99 % of the people who want illegal immigration stopped. Are there crimes committed against Hispanics because of their national origin? Undoubtedly. Are there crimes committed by Hispanics against Anglos for the same reason? Also yes. Which is a greater problem? Given that our touchy-feely government refuses to even consider that the later exists, statistics become meaningless. I would bet that more “oppressors” are victimized than “victims” in crimes in which racial, religious or national origin motives are involved.
No one should be beaten and killed by thugs, especially if those thugs are in the country illegally.
Ruben, you have driven me to act like a liberal, because i am commenting on your rant (they always are) with out reading it. Please help me. Can you tell me who murdered those 72 people, from Central America, last week, near the U.S. border at Brownsville, Tx? Were they not Mexican? Was it not brown on brown (“hate”)crime?
I went to the Post Office to rent a P.O. Box. I had to return home and get my passport and another ID, such as my birth cirtificate. Why did i go to all that trouble? I could have been sworn in as president with less.
Ruben, please go into an honest line of work. Your rants are getting old.
People in the country illegally should be apprehended and deported by authorities, not beaten and killed by thugs.
However, by the same token, A President who gains the White House through lies and the pretense he believes in the ideals on which this country was founded should be apprehended and removed from office.
The reality can’t be denied any longer. Barack Obama became President under the most false pretense. Piling up lie after lie about what you believe in and what you intend to do to transform America, to me, is a high crime. It’s like somebody being elected Pope who swears an oath on the bible but doesn’t believe in Catholicism. Obama’s a fraud of the highest order. He can’t defend the Constitution because he doesn’t believe in constitutional rights. He may be a constitutional lawyer. But that’s like a Japanese admiral prior to WW2 who studies at USC to gain knowledge of the enemy.
This constitutional lawyer doesn’t believe in the constitution. It’s irony of the highest order.
Maybe I’m just speaking for me, but I believe Obama has lost the consent of the governed because he’s no less than a national fraud. He’s a socialist/marxist actively working toward the downfall and destruction of the United States of America. The enormity of the reality isn’t lost on me. We have a United States President in office who hates and despises everything this country stands for: truth, justice, freedom, individual property rights, free enterprise. You name it. Obama hates it.
Thank goodness for the 25th amendment. Is it a stretch to think it covers this insane circumstance? Of course. But with the life of the nation on the line, there’s only one decision that can be reached.
We have a mole in the White House.
The 25th Amendment.
No guts. No country.
Well Ruben, you should be quite please courts handled this job.
In regards to your quote from our Declaration of Independence, that document is NOT applicable Illegal Aliens.
Funny, like a few weeks ago you were against deportation for Illegals, now you say:
“…they should be apprehended and deported by authorities, not beaten and killed by thugs.”
Let me remind you: they plainly put themselves at risk when entering this country illegally! And if Obama won’t deport them, OTHERS will. But then in times of budget crisis, one needs to look at less expensive means of accomplishing proper results.
A bullet for $1.35 vs prison time and deportation airfare, for obviously a few $ thousand minimum… Lest expensive means, remember?
‘Well, Ted Nugent doesn’t agree, and he’s one of the poster boys for “real Americans.” He says illegal aliens should be shot on sight.’–Betty don’t know Jack
Still waiting for the evidence supporting the claim that Ted Nugent says illegal aliens should be shot on sight.
Obviously we have race wars between groups. Male on male violence. The blight of hordes of Illegals adds fuel to the flames. The U.S. will surely experience more violence and eventually all out war on our soil between competing racial groups as well as practitioners of Islam vs. Christians and Jews . The attempts to re-engineer America’s melting pot with ever more invaders or legal migrants whose values, beliefs and cultures conflict greatly with America’s is a recipe for disaster. America is broke economically and as the multitude be they black, brown, yellow or white will surely turn against each other. This may sound like I am being over reactive, but I don’t think so. Remember it was easy for Hitler and his goons to turn the German populace against the Jew.
America needs a break. We need to heal our country before we allow the needy Illegal to remain in our country. We are spending to much capital, capital that the natural citizen can not afford.
I think with very little effort I could list a lot of cases of illegal criminal aliens committing ” hate crimes” against citizens. So what! Maybe these Mexicans should be given a shotgun and a box of shells and put ashore somewhere in Mexico and told if they want a better life the should take their country back from the Spanish elite that keep their foot on the neck of the poor Indians. Get it through your head that we owe foreigners nothing. What they get in most cases is help and good will, but they have no right to demand anything of Americans. If you want to avoid these ” hate crimes” in the future demand that the Federal Government deport ALL illegals be the Mexican, Canadian Irish or Congolese. Illegal aliens are criminals once the cross the border without permission. Get this fact through you thick skull and thank Americans for anything these people get and don’t you dare demand anything.
“If someone is the country illegally — and it’s not clear that all the victims were — then they should be apprehended and deported by authorities, not beaten and killed by thugs.”
All these comments to argue such a simple truth… to justify hate and violence and cruelty to another person…
God help us.
“People in the country illegally should be apprehended and deported by authorities, not beaten and killed by thugs.”
Either we get the former, or we get the latter.
you know at some point… one just doesn’t give a crap anymore… there is no end to the accusations of racism… used as a political club to force lawabiding nonminotity citizens to just shut up and pay up. it will never end… so just ignore it…to heck with themm
This article has got to be a prank, am I right? race, race, race, race, race and no logic, no logic, no logic, no logic, no logic! For a lad who boasts his intellect and Harvard credentials on several occasions he sounds ridiculous and that is me being kind and generous, not hateful. Where is the hate here? Crimes were committed I agree, but again where is the hate and racism? I’m blown away by the nonsense in this piece.
The Republicans are so funny, when the economy is good you say let’s all celebrate “Cinco de Mayo, my brothers” but when the economy is down “it’s all your fault, you damn immigrant”. When most Americans (with Latin America roots) go to the polls this November we will remember that the GOP has gone on a nationwide rant in proposing and passing several anti-immigration legislation and have continue to blame the immigrant for the flat economy or worse. We will remember who stands with us and who stands against us, so trying to stop it now is somewhat funny, but go ahead, you will not change our minds. Plus the more radical of the GOP are now attacking our Constitution and our Bill of Rights, in a misguided attempt to garner some much needed votes, they really are fools, and leading the GOP towards obscurity because they are no longer a party of ideas, just of empty suits. Your hate made you do it, in November; you will reap what you have sown. I wonder what Abraham Lincoln would say today about the GOP, he unlike you was a man of ideas.
That Mr. Navarette is an ethnic chauvinist and a Hispanic Supremacist is made clear from his articles. That he is included in the Washington Post’s writer’s group is a travesty.
What’s a Mother to Do? Part Two: Saving Sheriff Joe
Mother’s Problem Number Two: Saving Sheriff Joe
For those unacquainted with Sheriff Joe, i.e., Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, he’s the law enforcement official most hated by the Mexican drug cartels who have put a million dollar bounty on his head because he’s afflicted with an odd quirk: He insists on doing his job and enforcing the immigration laws of the State of Arizona and the United States of America.
Sheriff Joe is also the law enforcement official most hated by the Obama administration and Eric Holder’s Justice Department who haven’t, as yet, put a bounty on his head and instead harass and threaten him for the same reason, his odd quirk about doing his job and enforcing the immigration laws of the State of Arizona and the United States of America.
It’s as presumptuous of me to suggest saving the tough and independent Sheriff Joe as it is for the DOJ to suggest he cease and desist from repeatedly rounding up Mexican and other illegal aliens in his state and incarcerating them in his tent prison. There they are decked out in pretty pink garb, served adequate but far from sumptuous meals, and expected to behave as prisoners, not as indulged guests of the state.
It’s presumptuous but I’ll do it anyway.
Long a burr under the saddles of everyone from the ACLU to La Raza to every other illegal alien rights group in the nation, Sheriff Joe, the self-described “America’s toughest sheriff,” was issued a second ultimatum last week insisting he “comply with a Justice Department request to explain his office’s ‘operations, policies and procedures’ involving the arrest and detention of Hispanics.” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1877)
Again, Navarrette’s dishonesty comes through. He does not mention that most of the hate crimes in Long Island directed against Hispanics were committed by blacks.
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