Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Report: Poor Latinos face abuse, racial profiling in South

The report states that 500 immigrants were victims of a racial profiling and were denied basic health protection. One of the unfortunate racial profiling incidents was the story of a woman from Tennessee who was jailed for asking for her pay after working at a cheese factory. Another, was a bean picker from Alabama said, police from a traffic stop took his life savings. Also, a rapist in Georgia was not arrested because the suspect's victims was an undocumented immigrant. 45 percent of the people said they experienced theft of their waiges, and Forty-seven percent were treated unfairly by police. Also Seventy-seven percent of the women said they were sexually harassed by their boss.

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