Mexican immigrants are getting beat down.

According to The Washington Post [look I did it!], a series of slayings of Mexican immigrants have occured in a mobile home area in Tifton, Georgia. Six others immgirants have reportedly been wounded in these violent home robberies. The immigrants worked in the fields of cotton and peanut farms in this rural south Georgie community. At least two men are suspected of these senseful attacks. Although racism has not been brought up as a motive, it has also not been ruled out. The fact that only these poor, not English-speaking, people have been attacked, sets off a red alarm in my head that it may be because of their ethnic background. The community targeted is largely Mexican populated, with about 3,000 Mexicans living in it. Now, those who live there, live in fear for their lives.
I looked up racial violence in the United States with the help of a trusty friend I call Wikipedia. All throughout history, people have been judged and abused for their racial background. Most people, when thinking of racism, think of African Americans and slavery, or the Holocaust. It has, however, happened to those with white descent, from places such as Ireland. A case that relates to my article, involving the Irish, arose when a Committee of Vigilance was formed in 1851 in San Francisco. These comittees lynched and kidnapped hundreds of Irishmen just because they were Catholic and from a different country. Each Committee of Vigilance gave up power after it decided the city had been "cleaned up", which was after all the Irishmen were kicked out, beaten, or killed. The anti-immigrant aspects of its mob activity continued later, however, focusing on Chinese immigrants and leading to many race riots in the period leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.