Why Is Lou Dobbs Minimizing the Impact of Hate Crimes? - Recent Hate Murder of Latino in New York

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Recent Murder in Long Island, New York City, of a Latino Working Man, Marcello Lucero from Ecuador. Marcello worked at a dry cleaning business, he came to America 16 years ago

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This Murder by a Gang of seven teens was due to Hatred and it was particularly sadistic and gruesome like the Movie "Clockwork Orange" that shows a World of Sadism and Evil, a perverted World that knows only the pleasure of inflicting Cruelty and lacks Compassion, Gangs that enjoy the pleasure of inflicting humilliation, suffering and torture to others.
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Why Is Lou Dobbs Minimizing the Impact of Hate Crimes?

Dobbs got nervous after a news conference on link between the rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric and hate crimes against Latinos.


By Heidi Beirich, Hate Watch

November 29, 2008

Some Excerpts :

CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" recently aired a segment criticizing the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) for holding a news conference earlier in the day calling attention to the link between anti-immigrant rhetoric and hate crimes against Latinos. The groups were reacting to the recent murder of Marcello Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant, who was fatally attacked in early November by seven high school students in Suffolk County, New York.

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"Suffolk County is a particularly good example of elected officials stoking the fires of anti-immigrant sentiment," NCLR head Janet Murguia said during the press conference. She spotlighted the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, saying he had been "notably hard line against immigrants in his county." Earlier, Levy stated that the Lucero murder would have been a "one-day story" if the media hadn't chosen to hype it. Levy later apologized for the remark.

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Dobbs denounced NCLR's use of the Lucero murder to call attention to hate crimes. Dismissing concerns about anti-immigrant rhetoric leading to hate violence, Dobbs called the groups "advocates of open borders" and mocked them for being "long on rhetoric and absolutely, absolutely devoid of facts or respect for them."

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Dobbs, who has a long track record of defaming immigrants by linking them to crime, disease and other horrors, would probably like to pretend that immigrant bashing doesn't lead to hate crimes. But the facts of the Lucero case show otherwise. The teens implicated in Lucero's murder specifically declared that they were going to "go jump a Mexican" and went out hunting in the ethnically diverse village of Patchogue. Latinos in Suffolk County have long reported being threatened and physically harassed and there have been other highly publicized attacks there, including the near-beating death of two Mexican day laborers in 2001 and the burning of a Mexican family's house in 2003.
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