The federal trial of three Pennsylvania police officers accused of covering up the murder of an undocumented Mexican immigrant opened last week--reigniting critical discussion about the recent rise of anti-immigrant hate crimes. The officers--former Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew Nestor, Lt. William Moyer and Patrolman Jason Hayes--allegedly attempted to conceal the racially motivated nature of the 2008 murder of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez, who was brutally beaten to death in a park by a group of teenagers spouting racial slurs. At the time, Ramirez's murder underscored a growing trend of anti-Hispanic violence in the U.S., which some attribute to increasingly anti-immigrant political rhetoric
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