[Lancey Howard]

- The recent murders of six Mexican workers in Georgia underline various social issues facing immigrants, including inadequate housing and a lack of trust of financial institutions and local authorities..... A series of mobile home invasions at four Tift County trailer parks Sept. 30 resulted in the six Mexican men being beaten to death, one woman raped and six other men wounded.... Four people have been charged with six counts of murder each, according to David Haire, public information officer with the sheriff's office in Tift County.

Hmm. The article talks a lot about the crimes and the victims, but then at the end it only mentions that six people have been arrested, with no other information..... Um. The killers wouldn't ALSO happen to be illegal aliens, would they?

[dennisw]

The killers wouldn't ALSO happen to be illegal aliens, would they?

 The killers of these 6 illegal alien Mexicans were three local blacks. Motive was theft of stashed money. My guess was the same as yours

[BIRDS]

Yeah, I read the article twice to see what I'd missed, having that very same question as yours: why the "arrested" aren't identified any farther than that they're in custody...seems a glaring omission of details, suggesting that they, too, may be illegal aliens.

If not that, then, yes, it's omission based upon racial characteristics. Had "six white men" been arrested for the crimes, or even one, two of them, I am SURE it'd been mentioned in the headline and then at least a paragraph at position one or two in the article about it.

[BIRDS]

Yeah, I read the article twice to see what I'd missed, having that very same question as yours: why the "arrested" aren't identified any farther than that they're in custody...seems a glaring omission of details, suggesting that they, too, may be illegal aliens.

If not that, then, yes, it's omission based upon racial characteristics. Had "six white men" been arrested for the crimes, or even one, two of them, I am SURE it'd been mentioned in the headline and then at least a paragraph at position one or two in the article about it.