Speaker. The topic I want to talk about this morning is hate crimes. As immigration debate has intensified. white supremists. neoNazis. and other racists have increased their efforts to spread the racist message. White supremists have not simply expressed racist convictions but have urged others and white Americans generally to fight back against perceived invasion of white United States by Hispanics from Mexico. The rhetoric has grown increasingly by radicals. and their success is spreading and has been coupled with a rise in hate crimes across our country. And I state. across the country. Police reports document a growing number of acts of violence by far right extremists against Hispanics regardless of their status as citizens. whether they are profiling them. making remarks. creating different kinds of attitude and atmosphere and hate. The AntiDefamation League. a nonprofit that fights antiSemitism and other biases. put out a report last month that said hateful and racist rhetoric aimed at Latino immigrants had grown to a level unprecedented in recent years. The report detailed numerous examples of hate crimes. including two men in Tennessee who were sentenced to prison in December for shattering a window and painting Nazi symbols in a local Mexican market. Near Houston. two white teenagers were arrested in April accused of beating a Latino youth and sodomizing him with a pipe.
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