School bullying rises in Alabama after immigration law is passed
Hispanic Alabama Schoolchildren Face Bullying In The Wake Of Anti-Immigrant Law
It was just another schoolyard basketball game until a group of Hispanic seventh-graders defeated a group of boys from Alabama… . ‘They told them, `You shouldn’t be winning. You should go back to Mexico” … .
Machine shop manager Hector Conde said his family has seen the problem firsthand. Conde, whose family lives in Autauga County north of Montgomery, was appalled when his 12-year-old daughter, Monica Torres, told him a schoolmate called her a ‘damn Mexican’ during a school bus ride.
‘She is a citizen. She doesn’t even speak Spanish,’ said Conde, a U.S. citizen originally from Puerto Rico. ‘The culture being created (by the law) is that this sort of thing is OK.’
A Hispanic woman said her 13-year-old niece was called a ‘stupid Mexican’ and told to ‘go back to Mexico’ by a classmate in Walker County.
