Thread: Spanish-Language Media Decries Long Island "Hate Crime&

November 14, 2008
Spanish-Language Media Decries Long Island Hate Crime

By Marcelo Ballvé
New America Media

After a group of teenagers stabbed to death Marcelo Lucero, a 37-year-old Ecua-dorean, outside a Long Island commuter train station on Nov. 8, outraged Spanish-language media pointed to the attack as part of an ugly nationwide pattern in which a crackdown and tough rhetoric on illegal immigration contributes to anti-Latino violence.

Over the last two years, a raft of local and state laws seeking to curb illegal immigration, as well as federal immigration raids in neighborhoods and workplaces, have cast a pall over immigrant communities. Advocates say the hard-line atmosphere has emboldened xenophobes and racists to lash out against Latinos.

The lynch mob-style killing of Marcelo Lucero not only triggered concerned editorials and attentive coverage in New York-area English-language newspapers, it also became a lead story in Spanish-language media countrywide. Two days after the murder, Long Island police officials labeled it a hate crime, and the next morning Lucero’s photo dominated the front page of El Diario/La Prensa, with the headline: “Hatred Against Latinos.â€

1-Illegal alien killed by Americans.

30,000-Americans killed by illegal aliens.

Originally Posted by jonhaloi

1-Illegal alien killed by Americans.

30,000-Americans killed by illegal aliens.

And a sizable number of these are hate crimes committed against American citizens.

Originally Posted by millere

Originally Posted by jonhaloi

1-Illegal alien killed by Americans.

30,000-Americans killed by illegal aliens.

And a sizable number of these are hate crimes committed against American citizens.

That's right, most of those hate crimes by illegals were against black Americans. Why is nobody in the media decrying them?