Immigrant Advocates: Racial Conflict

City Authorities Dept: Gravely concerned about racial conflict in the middle of a hot summer, city authorities, immigrant advocates and the Mexican consulate have announced a series of measures aimed at reducing the violence even as they disagree over the cause of the attacks and how to stop them, according to Vancouver Sun. Police are investigating at least 10 incidents of beatings or robberies since April as hate crimes and in recent days have flooded the Port Richmond neighbourhood with patrol cars, street officers and "eye in the sky" mobile watch towers and a wave of attacks by black youths against Mexican immigrants has provoked a police show of force and swift action by politicians worried about racial conflict in the remote borough of Staten Island. The situation has combined two of America's most intractable social problems -- the plight of inner-city black youths who lack jobs and opportunity, and the world of the migrant workers who flee poverty or violence at home in search of low-paying jobs that Americans generally spurn. As reported in the news.
@t mexican immigrants, port richmond