Crystal Dillman with a photograph of her and her fiancé, Luis Ramirez, an illegal immigrant beaten to death in Shenandoah, Pa.
I came across an article that came out on August this year that really struck me,
It's about Luis Ramirez, a 25 year-old Mexican who had been illegally in the country for six years in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, picking crops and working in factories. Luis got in a street fight with four American teenagers from the area, who left him unconscious in the street.
People still don't know why the fight came to happen, some thing it was just a street fight gone bad, others, believe they singled Luis for being a Mexican immigrant.
Mr. Ramirez died a few days later, leaving his fiance and mother behind.
In the article, some Mexican Shenandoah residents say they are scared of sending their kids to school, because there "they don't like Mexicans."
The teens pleaded not guilty and only two of the teens are being charged with homicide and will be tried as adults.
They also said the attack had nothing to do with him being an immigrant, even though they are people who witnessed them using racial slurs as they kicked Luis around the street.
4 comments:
Wow, this is really disturbing. I can't believe that these kids were being tried differently because of the racial situation in their town. It reminds me of the times back during the Civil Rights Movement when whites were never seen as guilty when an issue arose with a black person. I thought that our country had matured past those days, but apparently not.
It will be horrible if this case is not handled fairly. What these boys did is not alright, but it could be possible that it happened for more than a purely racial motive. I wonder how this case will turn out.
This is terrible...
The good news is that I think that America´s election was a HUGE step towards leaving behind all racial barriers...hopefully it’s just a matter of time that these stories become less and less recurrent
Gigi I completely share your feelings like this is almost like going back in time! It's incredible how this things still keep happening all around us.
Juan, I hope that with these elections we'll get over this issues too, it's about time, don't you think?
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