Hispanic Americans and the Criminal Justice System

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. A widely accepted, and ironic, explanation for this loss of land owned by Chicanos was that many Whites felt justified in taking Chicano land because of the land grabbing that some Mexican governors perpetrated against American Indians.

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. A 2014 poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health and NPR, showed that

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. According to a 2014 report by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern California, research showed that Latinos receive harsher treatment in arrests, pretrial proceedings and sentencing than Whites, even when they were charged with the same offense.

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. The majority of undocumented or illegal immigrants are those who have expired legal visas.

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. In Puerto Rico,

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