I AM Hispanic and I'm not a walking stereotype or charicature that you seem so concentrated on. My family came here in the 80s to avoid having our family and home ravaged by war and wouldn't you know it, that's how alot of them immigrants find themselves coming here. Not to sell drugs, not to rob 'poor little old white ladies' or other bullshit. It's the desire to support yourself/family/whatever in the safest environment. Fact is, the third world doesn't have as many opportunities to do that as America does.
The other thing is, the legals never get the attention that illegals/thugs/cholos/assholes get. And that will never change. And it pisses the shit out of me. I agree with you about attempting to stop stereotypes. But some of us just don't care, while others do try to progress the image of the Hispanic. It's pretty much that way with every race.
Would it be fair to say that because most reported school shootings are perpetrated by white kids, I should stereotype white people as mass murderers?