Not surprisingly, white supremacists have not limited their actions to hateful or even violent rhetoric.  The past several years have seen a growing number of violent assaults and attacks by white supremacists against legal and illegal Hispanic immigrants, as well as Hispanic American citizens.  The crimes have ranged from vicious vandalism to brutal assaults and murders.  In most cases, the perpetrators did not even know the victims, but targeted them solely because of their appearance.

Only a minority of hate crimes are committed by ideological extremists, but such extremists have committed some of the worst hate crimes in America.  The increased willingness of such white supremacists, especially racist skinheads, to attack Hispanics represents a dangerous and disturbing trend. 

Here are some of the hate crimes committed by white supremacists against Hispanics in the U.S. in the past three years.

April 29, 2006, New York.  A teenager was arrested in East Hampton, Long Island, after he allegedly threatened a Hispanic teenager with a machete and chased a second teenager with a chain saw while shouting racial epithets.  Described by classmates as a skinhead, the alleged perpetrator had previously posted to the Internet photographs of himself posing as a Nazi and adorning a shed with swastikas.  He and two others, whom police have allegedly linked to the incident, were suspended from school.

April 22, 2006, Texas.  David Henry Tuck, 18, and Keith Robert Turner, 17, were arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault in the brutal attack of a teenage Hispanic high school student in Houston.  The victim was beaten and sodomized with a plastic pipe from a patio umbrella, then kicked in the head with steel-toed boots.  He was left with head wounds and major internal injuries.  The victim had bleach poured on him and was burned with cigarettes.  Witnesses allegedly stopped the attackers from carving something onto the victim's chest.  Tuck is a self-described skinhead who sports Nazi tattoos.  In 2003, at age 14, Tuck and two adult white supremacists were implicated in the racially motivated beating of a Hispanic man, according to court records and witnesses.  The two adults received federal and state sentences for their role; juvenile records are not public in Texas.

January 2006, California.  Ryan Nicholas Newsome, a member of the Another Order white supremacist gang, pleaded no contest on January 20, 2006, to assault charges in Yuba County.  He pleaded no contest to assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury with a criminal street gang enhancement as a result of an August 2005 incident, in which he and an associate allegedly assaulted a Hispanic man.

December 2005, Tennessee.  A Blount County judge on December 1, 2005, sentenced Jacob Allen Reynolds and Thomas Matthew Lovett to four years in prison and six months in prison (and two and a half on probation) respectively after they pleaded guilty to vandalizing a Mexican food store in Maryville on May 7, 2005, causing over $17,000 in damages.  The men allegedly broke windows and a refrigerator, vandalized a car, and spray-painted Nazi symbols on the store.  Three others charged still await trial.

November 2005, Texas.  Christopher Chubasco Wilkins, a prison escapee, was recaptured on November 5 and charged with murdering three men in the Fort Worth area during his month-long escape.  Wilkins, who is according to police a self-proclaimed white separatist heavily tattooed with a variety of white supremacist tattoos, including a portrait of Adolf Hitler, is alleged to have killed two Hispanic men and one African-American man by gunshots to the head.  Police are examining a possible racial motive.  Wilkins had been living at a halfway house in Houston, after being released from federal prison, and left the house without permission. 

November 2005, Tennessee.  A federal judge sentenced former Klansman Daniel James Schertz to 14 years in prison for selling pipe bombs to a person he thought would use them to kill Mexican and Haitian immigrants.  The person turned out to be an undercover informant.  Schertz, a former corrections officer and member of the North Georgia White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, pleaded guilty to making five pipe bombs to be used to blow up a bus carrying Mexican workers.  Later, Schertz expressed gratitude that the government had stopped him, but said, "We should have people here who know how to speak English.  They are over here illegally and nothing gets done to them."

October 2005, California.  A Sacramento man and two other suspects who allegedly attacked and injured six people in a hate-crime spree at two local parties were arrested in the early morning of October 16, 2005.  Ryan Marino, 22, posted bail from El Dorado County Jail later Sunday after being charged on four counts of assault with a deadly weapon with an extenuating circumstance of a hate crime. He allegedly used brass knuckles after shouting epithets against Hispanics and proclaiming "white pride" at a home Sunday evening.  Party attendees later identified Marino, who police said crashed the parties with the intent of "beating up Mexicans."

September 2005, Utah.  A federal judge on September 27, 2005, sentenced Lance Vanderstappen to 20 years in prison for trying to kill a Hispanic man while in a holding cell in July 2005 awaiting sentencing for a racketeering charge.  The victim had stab wounds to his neck, throat and chest.  In court, Vanderstappen, a member of the notorious Soldiers of Aryan Culture white supremacist prison gang, admitted that he targeted the victim because he was Hispanic, saying "I intentionally tried to kill him."  Vanderstappen pleaded guilty to attempted murder.

September 2005, New Jersey.  Joseph Schmidt of Little Egg Harbor received a sentence of three years' probation in September 2005 after pleading guilty in June to two counts of bias intimidation, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of criminal mischief, two counts of possessing weapons for an unlawful purpose, and simple assault.  The charges were related to a string of attacks on minorities, primarily Hispanics, in Ocean County in 2003.  Schmidt, a member of the white supremacist skinhead group East Coast Hate Crew, received a light sentence because he had cooperated with authorities in prosecuting other members of the group.  Three others involved in the incident pleaded guilty and one was acquitted.  Others have yet to go to trial.

July 2005, California.  Four people, three men and one woman, were arrested in Riverside, California, on July 11-12, 2005, charged with making terrorist threats with a hate crime enhancement.   Some of the people arrested had "white pride" tattoos, according to authorities, who also seized a variety of white supremacist items.  According to police, the suspects drove to a home and challenged several Hispanics there to a fight, threatening them and using racial slurs.  A similar episode occurred the next night.  According to police, the people arrested claimed no particular group affiliation but said they were proud to be "members of the Aryan race."

May 2005, Arizona.  White supremacist Steve Boggs was sentenced to death on May 13, 2005, for murdering three fast-food workers in Mesa, Arizona, in 2002 during a robbery.  He had been convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and various robbery, burglary and kidnapping charges.  Boggs shot the victims, a Native American and two Hispanics, then stuffed their bodies into a freezer at the store.  Boggs wrote to a Mesa police detective that he had wanted to "rid the world of a few needless illegals.  I don't feel sorry."  Another defendant still awaits trial.  According to prosecutors, the two men were members of a small hate group they called the Imperial Royal Guard.

May 2005, Texas.  Two racist skinheads pleaded guilty on May 5, 2005, to a racially motivated beating of a Hispanic man in January 2003.  Douglas Brannan of Hockley and Mark Fletcher Smith of Spring, both sporting many white supremacist tattoos, were convicted of civil rights violations.  The two men, and a teenager, had attacked a Hispanic customer at a gas station, beating him and kicking him with steel-toed boots until he was unconscious while shouting "border jumper," "spic," and "we kill people like you."  Brannan received a five year sentence and Smith a three year sentence.

December 2004, California.  Ten racist skinheads from Redlands and Riverside attacked three Hispanics in the parking lot of a topless bar on December 29, 2004.   According to police, they assaulted the men while yelling racial slurs at them and identifying themselves as members of skinhead groups.  No arrests have yet been made.

November 2004, Wisconsin.  Mark Lentz of Sheldon, Wisconsin, received a three-month sentence and two years of probation, as well as 40 hours of community service, after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor hate crime.  Lentz was the last of four racist skinheads to be sentenced for luring a Hispanic man outside a bar in Waukesha, then hitting him on the head with a bottle and repeatedly kicking him.  Mark Davis II of Watertown earlier received a 3 ˝ year sentence and two years of extended supervision, Kasey Bieri received an 18-month jail term and three years of probation, and Jeffrey Gerloski received four months in jail and two years probation.

June 2004, Texas.  Ranch Rescue member Casey Nethercott was convicted by a Texas jury of felony firearm possession in connection with an attack on two illegal immigrants from El Salvador outside of Hebbronville, Texas, in 2003.  He was sentenced to five years in prison.  The two immigrants (now in the U.S. legally) successfully sued Nethercott and others involved in the incident for a total judgment of $1,450,000.

November 2003, Idaho.  Aryan Nations member Zachary Beck was arrested for felony malicious harassment as a hate crime for attacking a Hispanic male in the parking lot of a supermarket after asking if the victim was Mexican.  While awaiting trial on that charge, he was later re-arrested after allegedly shooting at a police officer in Longview, Washington, during a standoff.  He still awaits trial on the alleged crimes.

June 2003, California.  Two racist skinheads, Waylon Kennell and James Grlicky, were convicted in separate trials for the brutal beating of a Mexican migrant worker in San Diego in the fall of 2003.  Grlicky was convicted of attempted murder, conspiracy, robbery, assault and battery, with a hate crime enhancement.  Kennell was convicted of assault causing great bodily injury and battery with serious bodily injury.   According to the prosecutor in the case, the two went hunting for a "beaner" to beat and rob.  They kicked the victim in the head around a dozen times, including "curbstomping" him—kicking down on the back of the head when the victim's open mouth is placed against a concrete curb (emulating a scene in the movie "American History X").  The victim suffered brain damage as a result of the attack.

May 2003, New Hampshire.  Aryan Nations member Russell Seace, Jr., of Hampton Beach, pleaded guilty on May 27 to being a felon in possession of a firearm as part of a plea bargain with the federal government.  In exchange for money, Seace had agreed to kill a Hispanic inmate after he was released, in retaliation for an alleged attack by the Hispanic man on a white prison inmate.

February 2003,  Oregon.  A Mexican landscaper in Beaverton was beaten with a baseball bat, robbed, and told to "go back home," by a man with a shaved head and a coat with "KKK" on it.  Baseball bats are one of the weapons preferred by racist skinheads.  Authorities posted a reward but were unable to make an arrest in the crime.