Federal officials open inquiry of slain Mexican immigrant in Pennsylvania

The Justice Department said Wednesday it had opened an investigation into the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant in a small northeastern Pennsylvania town, reports the Associated Press.

The federal involvement comes less than a week after local officials in Schuylkill County charged three white teens in this month's attack in Shenandoah on Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old father of two.

Ramirez was attacked July 12 when he crossed paths with a group of teens who had been out drinking in Shenandoah, about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia. He died two days later.

The killing of Ramirez exposed long-simmering tensions in Shenandoah, a blue-collar town of 5,000 with a growing number of Latino residents drawn by factory and farm jobs.

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[cs Trujillo]

We should open an investigation as to why there are so many illegal criminals here.