LatinoJustice Statement on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' Decision Granting Petition on U.S. Human Rights Violations Against Latinxs for Merits Hearing
August 21, 2020
August 21, 2020
NEW YORK, Aug. 21 -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following statement by Senior Counsel Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan:
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LatinoJustice PRLDEF in December 2008 shortly after the hate crime murder of Marcello Lucero in Long Island filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concerning a series of racialized violence and hate crimes fostered by an anti-immigrant climate espoused by the U.S. government, local officials and news media. After ten yea . . .
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LatinoJustice PRLDEF in December 2008 shortly after the hate crime murder of Marcello Lucero in Long Island filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concerning a series of racialized violence and hate crimes fostered by an anti-immigrant climate espoused by the U.S. government, local officials and news media. After ten yea . . .