No Coincidence that Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Results in Latinos Victimized at Highest Levels Ever for Hate Crimes (Latina Lista)

If you didn’t hear, hate crimes against Latinos is up. In fact, 62.8% of hate crimes were categorized as being perpetuated by an offender who had an anti-Hispanic bias.

Of the offenders who committed these hate crimes, 58.6% were white.

Since the report doesn’t break out for ethnicity when it comes to offenders, there’s no way of knowing if or how many Latinos are categorized as “white.”"*

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