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Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town

av Mirta Ojito

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Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: **�??Ojito has done truth an invaluable service. Extraordinary.�?��??Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2014 International Latino Awards Finalist A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist uncovers the true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration In November 2008, 37-year-old Marcelo Lucero, an unassuming worker at a dry cleaner�??s and an undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked and murdered by a group of teenagers as he walked the streets of the Long Island village of Patchogue accompanied by a childhood friend. The attackers were out �??hunting for beaners.�?� Some of the kids later confessed that chasing, harassing, and assaulting defenseless �??beaners�?��??their slur for Latinos�??was part of their weekly entertainment. In recent years, Latinos have become the target of hate crimes as the nation wrestles with swelling numbers of undocumented immigrants. Public figures fan the flames and advance their careers by spewing anti-immigration rhetoric. In death, Lucero became a symbol of everything that was wrong with our broken immigration system: fewer opportunities to obtain travel visas to the United States, porous borders, a growing dependency on cheap labor, and the rise of bigotry. Drawing on firsthand interviews and on-the-ground reporting, journalist Mirta Ojito has crafted an unflinching portrait of one community struggling to reconcile the hate and fear underlying the idyllic veneer of their all-American town. With a strong commitment to telling all sides of the story, Ojito unravels the engrossing narrative with objectivity and insight, providing an invaluable look at one of America�??s most pressing issues. �??Reminds us how we might think of each other and how we treat all of our neighbors, whether or not they look like us. This is our human story.�?��??Wes Moore**, author of … (mer)

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Very thoroughly researched, Hunting Season reveals the plight of immigrants in the United States by highlighting a specific, horrific incident: the murder of Marcero Lucero. An Ecuadorean immigrant, Lucero was taking a late-night walk with a friend when a group of suburban high school boys on the search for "beaners" to attack, stabbed him to death in Patchogue, a Long Island suburb.

Author Mirta Ojito presents a clear, engaging narrative laying the backdrop for this hate crime, and unraveling its consequences, from the political rhetoric amping up white hatred towards Latinos in the area to the individual family histories of each character in the narrative. A long-time journalist, Ojito extracts her facts primarily from personal interviews, and it's clear she's spent months immersed in their stories. Though the book is nonfiction, its narrative is as compelling as fiction — and all the more disturbing because it's not. Tying the tragic murder of Lucero to a wider crisis in immigration policy, and a growing anti-immigrant fervor, Hunting Season speaks with a urgent relevance.

For all its strength, why the missing star? When delving into the stories of Lucero's killer(s), Ojito tries, it seems, to partially absolve them of responsibility, placing the blame instead on the state governor, whose inflammatory xenophobic words and policies heightened tensions in the state. I was troubled by this move, because, as much as the governor deserves to be held accountable for his speech and actions, the boy who drove a knife into Lucero's chest can blame no one but himself. This aspect of the book weakens its anti-racist critique, but even so I hope Hunting Season serves as an important wakeup call to American society.

Note: I received a free copy of the book through the First Reads program. (

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csoki637 | Apr 17, 2015 |

This book made me angry; it wasn't because of how it was written or anything of that sort, no, it was because I had heard nothing about this incident.

Granted, I don't watch the news as much, but certainly someone would have told me about such an event. However, nothing, I don't remember hearing anything of the sort about this event that is chronicled, fairly expertly, in this book.

I know that racism is still alive and kicking in our country and I know that many people are against immigrants coming into our country. I also know there is a lot of people against illegal immigrants. But to the extent that is talked about in this book is appalling and it's even more appalling that more incidents go unreported out of fear of the police or knowledge that the police will do nothing to help them.

It is an eye-opening read. While many people are aware of the turmoil surrounding the issue or the fact some people have extreme reviews in regard to it, sometimes you don't think about it in terms of violence because you just hear the rhetoric. That and sometimes the news that is reported to different parts of the country doesn't acknowledge these kinds of happenings because it isn't what is bringing in the viewings or ratings.

I highly suggest that people read this book. It is well-researched and well-written. It doesn't just focus on the death of Lucero, but how immigrants came to be in that town, the background of others, his story, and how the news impacted the nation and how the nation impacted the event. It makes one think and it makes one want to be part of the solution that puts an end to the senseless violence that people face just based on how they look or are perceived.

(*Note: I was given a free copy of the book & cd in exchange for an honest review from the author through Goodreads Giveaways.) (

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carissaburks | Sep 27, 2014 |

A thoroughly researched telling of the murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant in Patchogue, New York. Seven local teenagers went looking for Hispanic immigrants to beat up. One died, leading to murder charges for the high school students, and changes in the way the local town tried to deal with the immigrants, most of whom came from the same town in Ecuador. (

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Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:

�??Ojito has done truth an invaluable service. Extraordinary.�?��??Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2014 International Latino Awards Finalist

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist uncovers the true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration

In November 2008, 37-year-old Marcelo Lucero, an unassuming worker at a dry cleaner�??s and an undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked and murdered by a group of teenagers as he walked the streets of the Long Island village of Patchogue accompanied by a childhood friend. The attackers were out �??hunting for beaners.�?� Some of the kids later confessed that chasing, harassing, and assaulting defenseless �??beaners�?��??their slur for Latinos�??was part of their weekly entertainment. In recent years, Latinos have become the target of hate crimes as the nation wrestles with swelling numbers of undocumented immigrants. Public figures fan the flames and advance their careers by spewing anti-immigration rhetoric.
In death, Lucero became a symbol of everything that was wrong with our broken immigration system: fewer opportunities to obtain travel visas to the United States, porous borders, a growing dependency on cheap labor, and the rise of bigotry.

Drawing on firsthand interviews and on-the-ground reporting, journalist Mirta Ojito has crafted an unflinching portrait of one community struggling to reconcile the hate and fear underlying the idyllic veneer of their all-American town. With a strong commitment to telling all sides of the story, Ojito unravels the engrossing narrative with objectivity and insight, providing an invaluable look at one of America�??s most pressing issues.

�??Reminds us how we might think of each other and how we treat all of our neighbors, whether or not they look like us. This is our human story.�?��??Wes Moore, author of