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The story is set in Patchogue, New York, an ethnically diverse working class village in Suffolk County. In 2008, a series of attacks against Latino residents ended with the killing of 37 year-old Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant who had lived in the village for 13 years. Seven local high school students arrested for the crime admitted they were "looking for a Mexican" to beat up. Over a two-year period, the...

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A Community Responds to Anti-Immigrant Violence

56:16 Air Date 09/21/11
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A Hate Crime Spurs a Community to Confront Racism

1:49 Air Date 09/21/11

A Long Island Town Confronts Anti-Immigrant Violence

3:45 Air Date 09/21/11