1. Nothing in that article nor the news story it quoted stated that the abusers were immigrants, legal or illegal. See point #4 below.
2. How is this more than a local story?
3. Why are the utterly unrelated stories of immigrants' crimes invoked? How is that not a smear tactic?
4. Is the article writer unaware that many Hispanics' families have been in the US, legally, for generations, some having ancestors who were in current US territory and states longer before there was a US? Or hoping his/her readers don't know or remember that fact?