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26
. Quote comes from Angel Loja’s testimony, New York v. Conroy, Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Suffolk No. 3032A-2008, 236A-2009, excerpt of trial (March 24, 2010).
27
. Kathleen Kerr and Carl MacGowan, “Riverhead: Expert: Lucero’s DNA on Knife,”
Newsday,
April 1, 2010. And from Stuart Dawson’s testimony, New York v. Conroy, Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Suffolk No. 3032A-2008, 236A-2009, excerpt of trial (March 31, 2010).
28
. Manny Fernandez, “Blood on Defendant’s Knife Was Victim’s, Scientist Says,”
New York Times,
April 1, 2010.
29
. Manny Fernandez, “Teenager Testifies about Attacking Latinos for Sport,”
New York Times,
March 29, 2010.
30
. Ibid.
31
. Ann Givens and Carl MacGowan, “Conroy ‘Upset’ after Conviction,”
Newsday,
April 21, 2010.
32
. Kathleen Kerr, Carl MacGowan, and Bart Jones, “Conroy Testifies He Didn’t Stab Lucero,”
Newsday,
April 9, 2010.
33
. Joye Brown, “A Stunning Twist as Conroy Testifies at Trial,”
Newsday,
April 8, 2010.
34
. Ibid.
35
. Manny Fernandez, “Veracity of the Defendant Is Key in Hate-Killing Trial,”
New York Times,
April 10, 2010.
36
. Brown, “A Stunning Twist as Conroy Testifies at Trial.”
37
. Kerr, MacGowan, and Jones, “Conroy Testifies He Didn’t Stab Lucero.”
38
. Manny Fernandez, “In Testimony, Teenager Charged with Hate Killing Recants His Confession,”
New York Times,
April 9, 2010.
39
. Alfonso A. Castillo, “Suffolk County: Neighbor’s Shocking Find,”
Newsday,
July 29, 2008.
40
. Erik German and Alfonso A. Castillo, “East Patchogue: Slay Suspect Denies Gun,”
Newsday,
August 5, 2008.
41
. Castillo, “Suffolk County: Neighbor’s Shocking Find.”
42
. Andrew Smith, “Guilty in Fatal E. Patchogue Shooting,”
Newsday,
May 18, 2011.
43
. Andrew Smith, “25 Years for Manslaughter,”
Newsday,
September 7, 2011.
44
. Manny Fernandez, “Verdict Is Manslaughter in L.I. Hate Crime Trial,”
New York Times,
April 20, 2010.
45
. Kathleen Kerr, Carl MacGowan, and Andrew Strickler, “Historic Words in a Packed Courtroom,”
Newsday,
April 20, 2010.
46
. Givens and MacGowan, “Conroy ‘Upset’ after Conviction.”
47
. Carl MacGowan, “Community Reacts to Conroy Verdict,”
Newsday,
April 19, 2010.
48
. Kerr, MacGowan, and Strickler, “Historic Words in a Packed Courtroom.”
49
. Sumathi Reddy, “Guilty Verdict in Hate Crime,”
Wall Street Journal,
April 19, 2010.
50
. Fernandez, “Verdict Is Manslaughter in L.I. Hate Crime Trial.”
51
. Joye Brown, “In Reaching Verdict, Hate Stood Out,”
Newsday,
April 20, 2010.
52
. Fernandez, “Verdict Is Manslaughter in L.I. Hate Crime Trial.”

E
PILOGUE

1
. Ian Urbina, “Federal Hate Crime Cases at Highest Level Since ’01,”
New York Times,
December 18, 2009.
2
. Langton and Planty,
Hate Crime.
3
. Associated Press, “Teen in Bias Killing Hid Knife in Boxer Shorts,”
New York Daily News,
November 24, 2008.
4
. Touré, “Inside the Racist Mind,”
Time,
May 7, 2012;
http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/19/inside-the-racist-mind
.
5
. Manny Fernandez, “A Hate Crime Killer Denies Being So Hateful,”
New York Times,
April 30, 2010.
6
. Sumathi Reddy, “Patchogue Hate Crime Defendant: ‘I’m Not a Monster,’ ”
Newsday,
November 1, 2009.
7
. Andrew Strickler and James Carbone, “Teen in Lucero Case Talks Briefly,”
Newsday,
June 12, 2010.
8
. Quotes come from a letter from Thomas Shea Sr., March 21, 2012.
9
. Luis Almonte as the Administrator of the Estate of Oswaldo Lucero a/k/a Marcelo Lucero v. Jeffrey Conroy, et al., Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Suffolk No. 09–43986, verified complaint, June 25, 2010.
10
. Jose Antonio Vargas, “Not Legal Not Leaving,”
Time,
June 25, 2012;
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2117243,00.html
.
11
. Marc Hugo Lopez and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, “Inside the 2012 Latino Electorate,” Pew Research Hispanic Center, June 3, 2013,
www.pewhispanic.org/2013/06/03/inside-the-2012-latino-electorate
/.
12
. Cindy Y. Rodriguez, “Latino Vote Key to Obama’s Re-Election,”
CNN.com
, November 9, 2012,
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/politics/latino-vote-key-election
.
13
. “¡Estimados Republicanos! The GOP’s Immigration and Hispanic Debacles,” editorial,
Wall Street Journal,
November 9, 2012.
14
. Julia Preston, “Latino Leaders Warn Congress on Immigration,”
New York Times,
December 13, 2012.
15
. Julia Preston, “Beside a Path to Citizenship, a New Path on Immigration,”
New York Times,
April 16, 2013; David Nakamura, “Immigration Bill Filed in Senate; Opponents Hope to Use Delays to Kill It,”
Washington Post,
April 17, 2013.
16
. Suzy Khimm, “Obama Is Deporting Immigrants Faster than Bush, Republicans Don’t Think That’s Enough,”
Washington Post,
August 27, 2012.
17
. Suzy Khimm, “Want Tighter Border Security? You’re Already Getting It,”
Washington Post,
January 29, 2013.
18
. Jeffrey Passel, D’Vera Cohn, and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, “Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—and Perhaps Less,” Pew Research Hispanic Center, April 23, 2012;
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/23/net-migration-from-mexico-falls-to-zero-and-perhaps-less
.
19
. John Valenti, “Suspects Sought in Robberies of Hispanic Men,”
Newsday,
May 15, 2013.
20
. E-mail to author from Mayor Paul Pontieri, June 22, 2013.
21
. US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, letter addressed to Mr. Steve Levy, Suffolk County Executive, September 13, 2011, Re: Suffolk County Police Department Technical Assistance Letter.
22
. Ibid.
23
. Will Van Sant et al., “Feds to Suffolk on Hate Crime Probes: Need to Do Better,”
Newsday,
September 15, 2011.
24
. Paul Pontieri, “Pontieri’s Speech from Ecuador Trip,”
Patchogue Patch,
July 1, 2010,
http://patchogue.patch.com/articles/pontieris-speech-from-ecuador-trip
.
25
. Jo Napolitano, “LI Library Takes Home a National Prize,”
Newsday,
December 18, 2010.
26
. Jennifer Medina, “California Eases Tone as Latinos Make Gains,”
New York Times,
February 17, 2013.
27
. Griselda Nevarez, “Tucson School District Poised to Restore Mexican American Studies,” Arizona Ethnic Studies Network,
http://azethnicstudies.com/archives/531
.
28
. Meredith Hoffman, “Study Finds That Immigrants Are Central to Long Island Economy,”
New York Times,
October 27, 2011.
29
. Ibid.
30
. Adam Davidson, “Coming to America: Are Illegal Immigrants Actually Detrimental to the U.S. Economy?”
New York Times Magazine,
February 17, 2003.
31
. Ted Hesson, “Steve Levy Unwittingly Gives $17,500 to Immigrant Rights Groups,”
Long Island Wins,
February 15, 2012,
http://www.longislandwins.com
/.
32
. “A New Day in Suffolk? Here’s Hoping,” editorial,
New York Times,
January 17, 2012.
33
. James Will, “Suffolk County Aids Non-English Speakers,”
Wall Street Journal,
November 15, 2012.
34
. Rick Brand, “Clearly, Bellone Is No Levy on Immigration,”
Newsday,
July 14, 2012.
35
. E-mail to author from Jean Kaleda.
36
. Rick Brand, “Suffolk Pols Write Judge Supporting Lucero Killer,”
Newsday,
May 29, 2010.
37
. Supreme Court: State of New York Appellate Division, Second Department, The People of the State of New York, Plaintiff–Respondent, against Jeffrey Conroy, Defendant-Appellant, appellant’s brief, filed June 12, 2012.
38
. Carl MacGowan, “Conroy Settles in at Prison, as Dad, Pastor Raise Funds,”
Newsday,
July 5, 2010.
39
. Luisita López Torregrosa, “Media Feed Bias against Latinos,”
New York
Times,
September 18, 2012.
40
. Sumathi Reddy, “A Cordial Exchange,”
Newsday,
March 20, 2010.
41
. Joseph Berger, “For Day Laborers, Used to Scraping By, Hurricane Creates a Wealth of Work,”
New York Times,
December 31, 2012.
42
. Interview with Paul Pontieri, December 20, 2012.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Allport, Gordon W.
The Nature of Prejudice.
Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1954.
Bennett, David Harry.
The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
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