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Inessential Violence Against Immigrants

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Thirdly and foremost, the final way immigrants are handled unfairly is that judgmental people uses unnecessary violence against legal or illegal immigrants. Violence has evolved significantly, especially how police handles them. For example, the article states “Witnesses told police that the two men beat the victim with a metal pole repeatedly and walked away laughing, according to a press release from the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. The elder Leader brother, Scott, later told police they attacked him because he was ‘homeless,’ ‘Hispanic,’ and an ‘illegal immigrant.’ ” (Ferrigno, “Donald Trump: Boston beating is ‘terrible’). This evidence clearly and directly shows that people uses inessential violence against immigrants, based

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