Jun
16
Another hate killing not much in the news
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Shawna Forde, an anti immigrant activist tied to a Minuteman group has been accused of participating in the home invasion robbery of a man and his 9 year old daughter in a small town 10 miles north of the mexican border in Arizona. The motivation appears to have been the need to raise cash for the group, which claims to want to take care of controling the borders or at least hating mexicans as much as they can. And now, apparently, hating has led to killing. Here you can find more details.
Not much coverage of this killing has been seen on television or mainstream news in general so far. According to the paper, she is a truly dangerous individual that has been involved in previous violent crimes and has publicly threatened to do more violence on “defending her cause” which is, again, hating mexicans and immigrants in general. Brisenia Flores, 9, and her father, Raul Junior Flores, 29, were killed in the May 30 attack. Where is the outrage and the wall to wall TV coverage?
Sad and disgusting. 
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I think that many Latinos like myself share your outrage at the mainstream media not addressing this incident in a more forceful manner.
In an hypothetical scenario, if undocumented immigrants had kidnapped and murdered members of the Minutemen near the border, I can assure you that Homeland Security will be treating the matter as an example of the national security problems that we face.
Regarding the posting itself, I would have chosen sharper adjectives and nouns with the objective of depicting Ms. Forde as the real terrorist she is. Rather than calling her an “activist” and an “individual”, I would have labeled her a “criminal” and a “monster”. And instead of defining the Minuteman as a “group”, I would have presented them as a “terrorist gang”.
Finally, Pilar Marrero, thank you for that analytical mind of yours that consistently and uncompromisingly helps us better understand the social and political dilemas of the Latino community.