Such conflicts as the one chronicled here aren't going to go away any time soon.
Isn't immigration, of both the legal and illegal variety, so wonderful and enriching to our society?
"Hispanics have been taking over the projects around my neck of the woods. I don't know how it is everwhere else. Here, tensions are high. "
I don't know where your neck of the wood is, but it happened in So. Oregon. I had to sell my home of 30 years because a beautiful neighborhood became Little Tijuana. My property value fell $50,000.00 in 3 months.
I missed the "the" the first time and thought you said Hispanics were taking over projects (social functions & positions of responsibility). I have noticed how, once a Hispanic gains a public office, directorship, etc. a great many are pressured or blatantly prefer filling under slots with Hispanics rather than equal or better qualified people of other "ethnicities". This is a travesty that backward engineers the strides toward real integration and equality under the law that American society has worked toward over the last fifty years.
Because of this phenomenon (and the PC crowd's tacit approval of it) I cast a justifiably suspicious eye on all appointments of "Hispanic-named" people to high positions. I say justifiably because too many of them abuse their offices to give preferential treatment to their "people" and try to get away with dual loyalties (or overt loyalty to Mexico!). Dual standards is another form of corruption. I'm sure our new U.S. Attorney General will put a stop to it.