On-Line News Story Comment of the Day: “The more we do to drive Hispanics from our midst the better”

Readers know that every so often I find — and post — a particularly jarring comment on an op-line version of a serious immigration-related news story.  I wanted to share one with you.  A CNN story reports that just a few months after four East Haven police officers were arrested and indicted in a nasty case for allegedly targeting and harassing Latinos for many years, Connecticut’s state legislature passed a modest bill designed to combat racial profiling. The bill, which awaits the Governor’s signature, mandates local and state law enforcement agencies to adopt a “written policy that prohibits the stopping, detention or search of any person when such action is solely motivated by considerations of race, color, ethnicity, age, gender or sexual orientation . . . “

Here is one of the comments on the story:

“chefdugan

Too bad. The more we do to drive Hispanics from our midst the better.”

Is that what people are thinking in Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, etc.?

KJ