New Delhi, April 9 -- The United States in 2025 witnessed a surge in hate crimes that disproportionately targeted members of the Latino and Sikh communities, raising fresh concerns over rising intolerance and gaps in protection for vulnerable groups.

Axios on Thursday (IST), citing preliminary data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), reported that anti-Latino and anti-Sikh hate crimes in the US soared to a new high in 2025, despite overall hate crimes seeing a decline. Hate crimes in the US have risen sharply over the past decade, with overall incidents increasing by 88% between 2015 and 2025, FBI data revealed.

For the first time in 34 years of hate crime tracking, anti-Latino bias ranked among the top three most targeted c...