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A thirty seven year old immigrant was killed recently in Long Island by 7 teenagers, in an incident that police are acknowledging as a hate crime. Marcello Lucero was stabbed to death on November 8th by Patchogue-Medford High School students who were apparently “wanting to beat up some Mexicans.” Lucero arrived in the US 16 years ago from Ecuador and was the sole breadwinner for his family. A Suffolk County prosecutor said the “lynch mob” surrounded Lucero near a commuter railroad station and beat and stabbed him. Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy, immediately issued a news release denouncing what he called a hate crime. In fact FBI records on hate crimes against Latinos show the numbers increasing since 2003. Luis Valenzuela, executive director of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance denounced anti-immigrant legislation by Levy and others in recent times as factors leading to Lucero’s death.

GUESTS: Luis Valenzuela, Executive Director of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance, Raul Anorve, Executive Director of IDEPSCA, one of the hunger strikers with the Fast for our Future campaign.

For more information, visit www.longislandimmigrantalliance.org and www.idepsca.org.