The decades after the church's establishment saw anti-immigrant violence involving the Know Nothing Party.

The incidents contributed to a climate of mounting concern in Germany over anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant violence by rightists.

Those incidents are the latest spasms in anti-immigrant violence in this region of southern Spain.

Soon after its initial use in Kenya, the Ushahidi software was used to create a similar site to track anti-immigrant violence in South Africa, UnitedforAfrica.

Most European rightists are associated with a bully-boy, shaven-headed chauvinism expressed just as easily in anti-immigrant violence as in homophobia.

The anti-immigrant violence later focused on Mexicans, Chileans who came as miners in the California Gold Rush and Chinese immigrants.

This week, this region better known for its sparkling white villages and beaches and lineup of hotels became the site of modern Spain's ugliest anti-immigrant violence.

The family escaped injury, but the crime, which police said was bias-related, rekindled fears of anti-immigrant violence on Long Island.

Mr. Voigt deplored recent anti-immigrant violence and said his party had nothing to do with it.

The case has become the focus of intense interest as Germany combats a wave of anti-immigrant violence.