Nativist tide boosts hate groups

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

- From “The New Colossus”

– a poem by Emma Lazarus, engraved on the Statue of Liberty

So strong is the nativist tide that has gripped a significant portion of Americans over the last few years that it’s almost as if some activists want to rip those words right off the Statue of Liberty.

For the masses of mostly Latino immigrants, legal and illegal, pouring steadily into America each day represent today’s version of the 19th Century tired, poor, huddled, wretched refuse that Lazarus and some of America welcomed when those 19th Century words were written. “*

Stumble it! | |

Other posts that may interest you

Anti-Latino hate groups grow almost 50 percent in 7 years - Hispanic MPR

Hate groups turn focus on Hispanic immigrants. Tennessee

Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate

A podcast interview with Mark Potok, director, Intelligence Report, Southern Poverty Law Center is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses anti Latino hate groups with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.

National Council of La Raza Calls For an “Intervention” to Take Hate Speech Out of the Immigration Debate

Anti-Defamation League (ADL): Anti-Immigration Groups 'Mainstreaming' Hate

Chevrolet, Coca-Cola and Mexicana Airlines are just a few of the non-endemic companies buying ads in Spanish-language magazine Constru-Guia al Dia (Up-to-date Construction Guide), available in Home Depot stores.

What's fueling increase in violence against Latinos?

Immigration: More hate from the media » VivirLatino

Report: Increasing Hate Crimes Targeting Hispanics - California