[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Stuart

]Personally, I have to take issue with the way this is reported. While I obviously think the boy perpetrating this crime is evil, and should be punished, calling him an immigrant is, at best, irrelevant (a person who commits this sort of crime is evil whatever race they are) and at worst, wrong. The article does not really give enough information to find other sources for what happened, but the article itself says that the boy came here to live with his father. It does not say anything about his father's status, but I'll lay odds that if the father was also an immigrant, the press

I think many people would agree with you on this point. The use of the word Migrant in headlines like these is deliberately aimed at associating Migrants with crime. The Daily Mail and Express have been at the forefront on this trend of hate reporting:



There are finally initiatives aimed at stopping companies advertising in these "newspapers", for example:

https://www.facebook.com/stopfundinghate/