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Severin suspended for comments about Mexican immigrants
Comments about Mexicans and swine flu by WTKK radio host Jay Severin have prompted a flood of complaints to station management. (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff/File 2001)
By David Abel
Globe Staff / May 1, 2009

Heidi Raphael, a spokeswoman for the station, said Severin had been suspended indefinitely from his afternoon drive-time show. She declined to say which of his comments - made since an outbreak of swine flu was linked to Mexico in recent days - sparked the suspension.

"I can assure you that the station has not been using the remarks for which he has been suspended in on-air promos," she said, declining to comment further.

In an e-mail, Severin, a bombastic voice whose views often mirror those of fringe conservatives and who rarely lacks something to say, referred questions to his lawyer. "I am simply not at liberty to discuss it at this time," he wrote.

George Tobia, his lawyer, said it was not clear how long Severin will be on suspension. "All we know is it's indefinite," he said in a telephone interview. "We're just learning of it, and we're dealing with it."

Severin's comments sparked deep concern among Mexicans and other Latinos living in the Boston area, prompting what Tobia described as a flood of complaints to station management in recent days.

"It would certainly be unfortunate if someone was suspended because some people didn't like what he said," Tobia said.

He said he did not know Severin's precise comments.

In one of his broadcasts this week, Severin said: "So now, in addition to venereal disease and the other leading exports of Mexico - women with mustaches and VD - now we have swine flu."

Later, he described Mexicans as "the world's lowest of primitives."

"When we are the magnet for primitives around the world - and it's not the primitives' fault by the way, I'm not blaming them for being primitives - I'm merely observing they're primitive," he said.

He added that Mexicans are destroying schools and hospitals in the United States. He also criticized their hygiene.

"It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America," he said.

He added: "We should be, if anything, surprised that Mexico has not visited upon us poxes of more various and serious types already, considering the number of criminaliens already here."

In a previous broadcast this week, Severin argued that the Obama administration wasn't taking sufficient action to seal the border.

"The usual 5,000 criminaliens that come across the Arizona border will probably be 8,000 tonight, and maybe tomorrow it will be 12,000, because even Mexicans are going to be trying to get out of Mexico at a greater rate.".......................................http://www.boston.com/news/loc....._mexican_immigrants/

jail should be the thing over here for this streunce

I would have to agree with Sal on this.......go ahead,,,I'm prepared for the onslaught.......

I was talking to someone who works in the ER.....they stated that there were a bunch of folks wanting to be tested for the swine flu..."just in case"
but the best story was a person who wanted to know if they had the swine flu because they 'knew a Mexican'.....(that lived here legally).....

let me just say------DUHHHHHHHHH