ABSTRACT
Recently, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) researchers interviewed 500 working-class Latino Americans in several towns and cities in Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama. These Latinos reported much mistreatment, mostly from whites:
In Tennessee, a young mother is arrested and jailed when she asks to be paid for her work in a cheese factory. In Alabama, a migrant bean picker sees his life savings confiscated by police during a traffic stop. In Georgia, a rapist goes unpunished because his 13-year-old victim is undocumented.
