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Hate Crime
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Blogging from Shanghai, part 9
Hate speech/hate crimes. My discussion yesterday with law students here in China interested in the Asian American legal experience began with a review of Japanese American internment during World War…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Hate Crime Murder of Latino Students in Florida
From the DailyKos:In one of the most heinous HATE Crimes against Latinos in U.S. history, two young Latino students were brutally murdered yesterday by Republican activist and Christian Conservative Minister…
The Right Coast
Federal Hate Crimes Legislation Will Put Double Jeopardy Protections in Jeopardy Gail Heriot
Here is the link to my essay on this subject in Engage Magazine.
ImmigrationProf Blog
Latinos Recall Pattern of Attacks Before Marcelo Lucero Killing
The N.Y Times had a follow-up story on the hate murder last November of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecudoran immigrant on Long Island (Click here to see the indicrtment.). "The attacks…
ImmigrationProf Blog
MALDEF CALLS FOR NATIONAL ACTION IN WAKE OF KILLING OF THIRD LATINO VICTIM OF A HATE CRIME IN FIVE MONTHS
As we have reported, hate crimes against Latinos are at record levels. Today, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) President & General Counsel John Trasviña called upon leaders…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Hate Breeds Hate: The “Sport” of “Beaner Hopping”
The facts that continue to come out about the hate murder of Ecuadoran (legal) immigrant Marcello Lucero send chills up the spine of anyone with a conscience. It initially was…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Via Woodhull Freedom Foundation: The Transgender Day of RemembranceThe Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors the memory of those murdered because of anti-transgender prejudice, is recognized annually on November 20.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Fighting Hate Crimes
We have posted lately about the increase in hate crimes against Latinos and the horrible killing of Marcello Lucero, the Ecuadoran immigrant. The Southern Poverty Law Center is helping hate…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Navarrette on the Killing of Marcello Lucero
As regular readers of the Immigrationprof Blog are aware, I do not always agree with Ruben Navarette Jr.'s columns. However, I wholeheartedly agree with his analysis of the horrible killing…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Sign of the Times? Hate Crime on Long Island: “Let’s go find some Mexicans”
As ImmigrationProf Blog reported a couple of weeks ago, the FBI Hate Crimes Statistics Report found that crimes motivated by anti-Hispanic bias had risen dramatically over the past few years.…