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On Thursday night the Chilean National News was reporting that two students from Chile had been shot and killed, and three others wounded. I was watching the Chilean news with my Chilean ex and right away my mouth said what my gut felt. Was this another hate crime?

Turns out that the deaths of Nicolas Pablo Corp-Torres age 23 and Racine Balbontin-Aragondona, age 22, and the critical wounding of three — Fransisco Javier Cofre-Fernande, age 25, in critical condition; Sebastian Mauricio Arizaga-Suarez, age 27 and David Alonzo Bilbao-Meza, age 21, was motivated by hatred of immigrants.

The accused killer, Dannie Roy Baker, is a self-proclaimed minister who apparently was moved by Republican hate speech against immigrants (read Latinos).

Neighbor Crystal Lynn says “he did come up to me one time and asked me if I was ready for the revolution to begin and if I had any immigrant in my house to get them out.

While some are questioning the sanity of Baker, what is clear is that he was sane enough to use hatred towards immigrants as an excuse for his disgusting crime. In a country that despite it’s new president, is still conducting raids on working immigrants, regardless of status, it’s no wonder that crazy or not, scapegoating the economic troubles of the U.S. on immigrants (read Latinos) is acceptable. Just read some of the comments on other sites responding to the crime (hate comments will be deleted here).

Via / Latina Lista y Immigration Talk With a Mexican American