New report focuses on “Confronting the New Faces of Hate”
June 19th, 2009

Earlier this week, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) Education Fund released its most recent report, Confronting the New Faces of Hate.  This study documents how some in the anti-immigrant camp have resorted to "the dehumanizing, racist stereotypes and bigotry of hate groups."  The report notes:

"As inflammatory rhetoric targets immigrants at the same time that the number of hate crimes against Hispanics and others perceived to be immigrants steadily increases, a heightened sense of fear has gripped Hispanic and other minority communities around the country."

The Washington Post ran a story on the LCCR report.  The article highlights that U.S. civil rights leaders have noted that "an increase in hate crimes committed against Hispanics and people perceived to be immigrants in recent years ‘correlates closely' to the nation's increasingly contentious debate over immigration, faulting anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media and extremist group mobilization on the Internet."

Read Confronting the New Faces of Hate here.