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Hate Crime
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Vinculan política con ola de odio
For a discussion of the spike in hate crimes against Latinos, the debate oiver immigration reform, and election year politics in La Opinion (n Spanish), click here.KJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
Police Respond to Anti-Mexican Hate Crimes on Staten Island
Fortunately, police are taking the recent spate of attacks on Mexican immigrants in a Staten Island neighborhood most seriously. Unfortunatly, thjis is not an issolated incident as, acccording to FBI…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Hate Murder in Arizona?
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer had just signed SB 1070; 44-year-old U.S. citizen, Juan Varela, was watering chile plants in his front yard when a neighbor shot him to death. The defeandant has been…
Nursing Home Abuse Advocate
Some Prosecutors Are Using Hate Crime Law To Prosecute Non-Violent Crimes Against The Elderly
Although this post is a little off the topic usually addressed in this blog, I found an an interesting article by Anne Barnard in yesterday's New York Times. The article reported on the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Teen Sentenced in Hate Killing of Marcelo Lucero
Yesterday, the teenager convicted of killing a Latino immigrant in a 2008 hate crime attack in Patchogue, NY was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Jeffrey Conroy, now 19, was told by Justice Robert W.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Hate Murder in Arizona?
Given the racial tensions in Arizona surrounding its new immigration law, is this report from the Arizona Republic the least bit surprising:"Family members of a south Phoenix father slain last…
ImmigrationProf Blog
NAACP: Seattle Cop Committed Hate Crime Against Latino
The head of the Seattle chapter of the NAACP on Tuesday called a videotape, showing a Seattle police officer stomping on and using racially charged language toward a Latino man,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
New USSC amendments expanding prison alternatives and addressing certain offender characteristics
Main April 19, 2010New USSC amendments expanding prison alternatives and addressing certain offender characteristics As detailed in this just posted official press release, the United States Sentencing Commission has "voted…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Verdict: Marcelo Lucero Killer Convicted
CNN reports that jurors have convicted a Long Island man of manslaughter as a hate crime in the death of an immigrant from Ecuador. Jeffrey Conroy was on trial for…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Sign of the Times — 4 face hate crime charges in beating of Mexican immigrant
CNN reports that four people were arrested and charged with hate crimes in New York after a Mexican immigrant was beaten with a baseball bat, a metal chain and wooden planks.…