Hate Makes a Comeback
Groups Like the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis Target Mexican Immigrants
By JIM AVILA, ELIZABETH TRIBOLET, MARY HARRIS & GINA SUNSERI
ABC News Law & Justice Unit
May 1, 2007
Print The roiling American border debate over immigration has revived one of the ugliest chapters in American history and become a vital recruiting tool for hate groups, experts say.
The number of hate groups — from the Ku Klux Klan to neo-Nazis and skinhead groups — has risen by 40 percent since 2000, from 602 to 844, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such groups
Mexican-American football star born in Houston. He was beaten nearly to death by two skinheads at a teen party. They poured bleach on him and beat him mercilessly. Ritcheson was in a coma for days, and suffered massive internal injuries, internal bleeding and a shattered cheekbone. He is now deaf in one ear.
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