And Speaking of Ethnic Crime...

The Google News Headline is intriguing: "Three charged in deaths of six immigrants in Georgia". The featured USA Today story explains

Authorities said they believe Sims and Underwood may have been part of an armed-robbery gang that preyed on immigrant workers, who often carry large sums of cash because they lack documents that some banks require to open accounts.

Hmmm. Surprised there's no "hate crime" angle here - American citizens preying on poor, defenseless immigrants - this is the type of story that would normally kick up a little controversy. Let's take a look at the next article in the list, from ABC News:

Three people were charged with murdering six immigrant farmworkers in a series of robberies by a gang wielding baseball bats and guns.

Wow, sounds more sensational yet - surely this calls for some serious collective self inspection, some national mea culpas over such atrocious treatment of our hardworking guests. But the article makes no such suggestion. Next article, from CNN, and more intrigue:

The attacks have sent a chill through south Georgia's large Hispanic community, which includes thousands of workers who harvest millions of dollars worth of crops each year.

Whoa - a "chill through the community" - those are hot words - surely some national disgrace must be involved here - but again, no indication of any "hate" angle or "anti-immigrant" animus as the root cause. Very curious. Let's check out the next article, from WXIA-TV Atlanta. Hmmm, same terrible tale of helpless immigrants being brutally preyed upon, but, again, oddly, no outrage, no alarming statements from the Southern Poverty Law Center, no immigrant groups condemning the climate of fear this story so plaintively illustrates - I mean, where is the outrage!?...Continued...oh wait, hold on, I see they have a picture of one of the suspects:


Never mind.

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