A Republican lawmaker from Kansas apologized Tuesday for saying that undocumented immigrants should be shot like feral hogs during a committee meeting on Monday. “My statements yesterday were regrettable,” Rep. Virgil Peck wrote in a statement. “Please accept my apology.” Peck came under fire for his comments from numerous Hispanic civil rights groups from all […]
Kansas Lawmaker Apologizes for Comments after pressure from Hispanic groups but still facing Calls to Step Down
March 16, 2011 By
Kansas Republican says Undocumented Immigrants should be shot like Feral Hogs
March 15, 2011 By
A Republican state lawmaker from Kansas suggested yesterday during a meeting for controlling feral hogs that undocumented immigrants should be treated in the same fashion, shot dead from a helicopter. “It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works maybe we have found (a solution) to our illegal immigration problem,” Rep. Virgil […]
Guest Blogger Series: Henry Fernandez “Arizona Under Fire”
February 23, 2011 By
Jury Convicts Minuteman Leader of Murder A jury in Pima County, Arizona, convicted Shawna Forde of the murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father in a May 2009 home invasion. The jury will now decide whether Forde will face the death penalty. Forde’s alleged co-conspirators will go on trial in the coming months. Forde […]
Jury Convicts Minuteman of Killing 9-year-old and Her Father
February 16, 2011 By
On Monday, a Pima County Arizona jury convicted Shawna Forde of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2009 killing of Raul Junior Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia. Forde was also convicted of attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of Flores’ wife, Gina Gonzalez, and counts of aggravated assault and robbery. The jury deliberated […]
Trial Begins in Case of Minutemen Accused of Killing 9-year-old and her Father
January 28, 2011 By
Opening arguments began this week in the trial of Shawna Forde, the alleged masterminded behind the May 2009 murders of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul Flores in Pima County, Arizona. Originally a member of the anti-immigrant Minutemen Project, investigators say Forde broke away from the group to form her own extreme faction. Gina […]
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