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Dislike of Illegal Immigrants Cited as Reason For Near 50 Percent Increase in Anti-Latino Hate Crime in California

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Although hate crime in L.A. County was recently reported to be at a 21-year low (PDF), an L.A. immigrants' rights group wants it to be known that such attacks targeting Latinos are up nearly 50 percent across the state (PDF).

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles thinks that much of this crime is "anti-immigrant."

The group's executive director, Angelica Salas, even called out the rhetoric of right-wing radio talkers John & Ken (KFI AM 640) today:

We are gravely concerned that hate crimes in California are increasingly anti-Latino and anti-immigrant. An unjust and inhumane immigration system makes matters worse in immigrant-heavy states like California by forcing millions to live in the shadows only because their papers are not in order. Lest we forget, conservative and extreme talk radio programming, including the John and Ken Show in Los Angeles, contribute to a community atmosphere constantly on the lookout for someone else to blame.

According to a California Attorney General's office report released last week (PDF) anti-Latino hate crime was up about 47 percent statewide last year.

¡Ay, caramba!

Are John & Ken really inspiring people to lash out at los illegals? All they inspire in us is a twist of the knob to the off position.

Salas, for her part, admits it's not all bad:

As the LA County report also points out, an overall third-year decline in hate crimes may indicate an age of reason is upon us.

Yay.

[@dennisjromero/djromero@laweekly.com/@LAWeeklyNews]

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AWordToTheWiseFool
AWordToTheWiseFool

its not a hate crime to punch a wetback in the face as he is climbing out the window of YOUR house withYOUR widescreen t.v.

Jan_ine123
Jan_ine123

I wish a motherf#cker would try to get at me for being Latina. I'd rip their heart out and feed it to them...AZTEC style. Take that whitey.

AWordToTheWiseFool
AWordToTheWiseFool

go back to mexico you worthless piece of shit. And No you cant have your welfare check that was provided by the working White middle class. I'd bitch slap you and 5 of your homies ASSeeeee

Cuauhtemoc
Cuauhtemoc

The very reason the Aztec nation failed-- treachery, backstabbing, internal in-fighting, bloodlust, and stupidity Sorta like Mexico today-- no?

Bonaveries
Bonaveries

Just tell us what can be done to return our mcdonalds to at least all American employees? Instead of the all latinos prob most illegals who most hate waiting on us Americans! Help we're going down!!!!

Errigorn
Errigorn

Take that Whitey? And you call us racist? Your a joke. Ohhh tough guy I'm so card.

AWordToTheWiseFool
AWordToTheWiseFool

He would stop and kick your ass but he is too busy doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do like A & B, housbreaking, larceny, welfare fraud, etc He is a tough chicano scumbag that is busy stealing from the white middleclass. I could have a mexican baby all I would have to do is take a shit and not flush. The wetback would crawl out da toilet and begin demanding things.

Don Blackburn
Don Blackburn

You may of made that tired story work in the early 2000s but our unemployment is way too high to make that believable now.

Dave Francis
Dave Francis

 The gap is so wide between people who came herethrough approved channels legally, and the illegal aliens for the purpose oftaking jobs from low income Americans--intentionally or not, and will be in mybook and the majority of the American population--ILLEGAL ALIENS? Then the termis lawfully enhanced and better known as a fugitive from justice, as when theyentered this sovereign nation they lost all their rights as being from anothercountry. Whether that individual or family is a border jumper, is in name aillegal migrant. There is a slight difference between the two--a migrant entersthe sovereignty of America through the poorly enforced border region andtramples our laws.

 

The students, tourist etc, who ignore his/her expired visaand intentionally fails to leave as required--is an illegal immigrant. But bothare in violation of the law, and have to commit a second offense by procuring acitizens or legal residents ID to work. This alters the original violation froma misdemeanor to a felony. Although under the current Justice Department rulingif they have not committed a felony crime, the new discretionary order from thedesk of President Obama, releases them back on the streets. So the DOJ is infact aiding and abetting a foreign national that is deemed a federal offense byCongress, and undermines their own policies, which is ridiculous.

 

I wonder what ever happened to the “rule of Law” of whichthe Obama’s court has now turned a myopic eye to, with the judiciary procedureof the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act completely dropped. Our countryhas been so crippled by the interests of thousands of special interestlobbyists, given favors to the policymakers; that they even resent the Americanpeople reaction to the corruption spawned in Washington.  We have seen it first hand from the ‘insidertrading’ by both parties, to name just one secret advantage that the SecuritiesExchange Commission would throw the common man in prison.   Thereis a paralysis currently in Congress, from trying to shrink the 15 Trilliondollar federal deficit, with over a hundred billion dollars going in support ofthe illegal invaders.

 

The DOJ is also trying to stop the passage of policing lawsin the other 45 states through suing them in the courts. Yet five states mainlyon the East coast have enacted passage of their own laws, to survive the hordesof economic illegal aliens feeding from the public assistance of a excess ofwelfare benefits. Just in the past few months the State of Alabama althoughhammered by the open border activists, the DOJ have factual evidence that theirpolicing laws are working. September was the first full month thatthe policing reform was enforced, and the unemployment rate fell from 9.8percent in September to 9.3 percent in October, according to a Nov. 18 (GOA) GeneralAccounting Office report from the state government. You cannot changethe inevitable that as illegal aliens leave; jobs are beginning tomaterialize for US workers?

Aid that normally belongs to thedisenfranchised poor of this nation, has been whisked away to supplementforeign nationals, who are stealing the country blind. The racket of having ababy here, to get instant citizenship and thereby a toehold in legality, is oneof the biggest financial disasters, the courts have imposed; unfunded mandatesthat the 50 states cannot decline. Health care for economic immigrants andfamilies has been badly mauling medical care daily, as well as the publicschool system that we inherited from Plyler v. Doe. Illegal alien’s parents areacutely aware that taxpayers must carry the burden in all 50 states to educatetheir children.  It is mainly unlikelythat we can undo these unfunded mandates for free health, schooling for illegalaliens and their children, but E-Verify has the power to send the joblessparents home and most will not leave without their children. In a Rasmussen poll recently published, shows that 65% more voters--more than ever, are opposed to granting automatic U.S.citizenship to a child born to an illegal immigrant in this country

Our country needs professional people withscience, math and technology backgrounds, not people who become a taxpayer’snightmare.

 

Unless the People, namely the TEA PARTY canrescind or amend the misinterpreted 14th Amendment clause, anyillegal alien family can get a free public education and health care. The bestchance we have is the national ’THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT’ a deterrent calledE-Verify to stop the hiring of illegal workers. Send a free fax by using NumbersUSA,a complimentary buffet of immigration notices to the lawmakers. If you want tostop being victimized by the Democratic and Liberal side of Washington, thenspeak up for your rights. YOUR VOTES ARE POWERFUL LEVERAGE! The Tea Partyleaders will intrude in any effort to pass a new mass amnesty and will takeaway federal funding for any ordinance to promote a Sanctuary City or reviseupwards CHAIN MIGRATION, which is another form of Amnesty. The IRS will be investigatedfor inept procedures giving $4.2 billion dollars, when they never paid anytaxes, including fraudulent illegal immigrant child tax credits.  Further they will reduce the federalgovernment and return Departments to state level control. A new tax code willbe introduced with none of the ‘Quid pro Quo’ of special privileges ofsubsidies to the giant agricultural corporations, the GE-General Electric’s ofthis world. 

 

 Itcould possibly be the last chance to alter this unfettered epidemic that thelegislators in Congress refuse to acknowledge which is causing financial ruin.If Lamar Smith’s E-Verify becomes the law of the land, subsequently uncountablenumbers will begin to  self-depart as thebusiness world are held accountable The businesses causing the encouragement ofbring cheap labor here will begin to ebb, as the owners will be facing stifferfines, loss of company assets and incarceration. The leftist party will use anymeans possible to negate a Mandatory law passing, which also includes theheavyweights in the Republican hierarchy.

 

Those not working and want a job should getinto action and phone 202-224-3121. This is the Washington phone exchange,which can direct you to all House Representatives responsible for movingChairman Lamar Smith's ‘Legal Workforce Act’ (bill H.R.2885) to the housefloor.

Frawsty
Frawsty

Wow, its up 50%!!!!! So the previous year there were 2 hate crimes against Latinos, and now it's up to a whopping 3. Hey Dennis, the reason there is a dislike of illegal immigrants is not because they are Latino, it's because they are illegal. You do understand illegal don't you?

Da_awful_truth
Da_awful_truth

Why? Not all latinos are immigrants. You never here anti Canadian hate crimes...why because they are caucasian and we accept them. The point here is that the hate is on Latinos. Moron!

Frawsty
Frawsty

You do realize that all Canadians are not all caucasian. But thanks for your racist bigoted answer. The point I made is that it doesn't matter if they are Latino (or Canadian), there is a dislike if they are illegal. Unfortunately you didn't understand that because you were too busy calling me a moron. At least I understand the difference between "here" and "hear" when I make a statement. Obviously, it is time to change your name from da_awful_truth to just da_awfool.

Cuauhtemoc
Cuauhtemoc

@Frawsty... he doesn't even understand that not all "immigrants" are legal, how can he understand that not all "illegal immigrants" are not "Latino?"

bigriggs
bigriggs

"An unjust and inhumane immigration system makes matters worse in immigrant-heavy states like California by forcing millions to live in the shadows only because their papers are not in order."

Cry me a river.... We have some of the laxest immigration laws in the world.

Cuauhtemoc
Cuauhtemoc

I like how they try to make it sound like a fascist/Nazi state where you have to "produce your papers." Hell, you can drive drunk and without a license, and the consequences are less exactly because you have no papers. Where's the downside on that?

"Papers, please!""Me no have no, officer.""Driver's License?""No, senor.""California ID?""No.""Passport?"Nada.""Social Security Card?""You kiddin', senor officer. you beery funny.""Photo ID from Costco?""My wife...she no Costco... she Wal-Mart...Food-4-Less.""College ID?""My mija, she go to college.?""You been drinking tonight, sir?""Si, but only 10 Budweiser.""Just 10?""Si.""You're not lying to me are you, amigo?""No, senor...me jus' been 10.""Ok...shut off the vehicle. Leave it parked here. Don't let me catch you driving it, comprende?""Si, muchos gracias.""Make sure you walk home, or get someone else to drive you.""Can I borrow your cell phone, officer.""Sure, why not. You ain't calling Michoacan are you?"

Girlygirl27
Girlygirl27

IF you lazy Americans would get off your lazy ass then maybe you wouldn't be scared of Latinos taking your jobs. Few Americans are the ones that are out working in the sun. And if yo Americans would stop screwing up the country's of the Latino community you wouldn't have this problem.You are against the Latino community are plain stupid let me tell you this you were all immigrants at one point so shut the hell up!!!!!

big riggs
big riggs

You do realize that farm workers only make up about 20% of the illegal workforce. What about all the illegals in the food industry, the construction industry, the factory industry etc....? I find your statement about Americans getting off their ass laughable and typical.

 I have friends with teenaged kids that can't get typical summer jobs anymore at McDonalds, Wendy's etc because illegals have taken them all. I have a good friend that went bankrupt (and is now back on the plus side because of his hard work, something you seem to think Americans don't have) because his construction company was decimated after he could not compete with the low prices other companies offered while they employed illegals. In 20 years of work, my friend never had one problem, in 2 years of work, one company that uses illegals has been sued 4 times because of horrible and sometimes dangerous work.

Your last sentence (calling it a sentence is a real stretch by the way) is again, laughable and typical. I have been married to a beautiful, third generation Latina for almost 15 years (she feels the exact same way about illegal immigration as I do.). I am not against the Latino community, I am against people cheating the system and bitching about how unfair they are treated. Yes, we are all immigrants, however, we are all legal immigrants, something you seem to fail to understand.

Have a nice day.

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