News Briefs From New England Hispanic Newspapers By Pedro Pizano, FI2W contributor BOSTON, Massachusetts – Hispanic and Jewish groups have launched a joint campaign to stop “hate crimes targeting Latinos and the anti-immigrant rhetoric entering the mainstream.” The Anti-Defamation League…
Law enforcement officials from around the country say that the current immigration system creates obstacles to their work because undocumented immigrants who are victims of hate crimes are often afraid to report them. The comments came in the same week…
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor There is fear among Latinos in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. “The message the justice system sent to young white men here is that they can continue to beat up and kill Latinos, because in the end,…
By Aswini Anburajan, FI2W reporter No sooner had prosecutors in Connecticut dropped charges of disorderly conduct and interfering with police activity against Rev. James Manship, than the Roman Catholic priest announced a campaign to have federal authorities look into charges…
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor The men accused of killing Jose Sucuzhañay, the Ecuadorian immigrant beaten to death with a bottle and a baseball bat on a Brooklyn street last December, have been indicted under charges of murder as…
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor The Long Island youths accused of killing Ecuadoran immigrant Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue in November had been attacking Hispanics in the area for a year, authorities say. “They engaged in a regular and violent…
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor For the second time in less than a month, an Ecuadorean immigrant was savagely attacked in New York by men shouting anti-Hispanic slurs. Once again, as with the death a month ago of Marcelo…