Objective. We advance social disorganization theory by examining homicides disaggregated by motive and gang relation and by using data from El Paso, Texas-a predominantly Latino city with high levels of immigration and poverty. Methods. We analyze homicide data from the El Paso Police Department's detective logs, 1985-1995, as well as data from the 1990 U.S. Decennial Census. Results. Key measures of social disorganization tend to be associated with homicide but these relationships vary across type of homicide. Immigration and percent African American show no connection with any homicide measure, while percent Latino is only positively associated with gang-related homicides. Conclusion. Overall, social disorganization is useful in understanding homicide in El Paso, but race/ethnicity and immigration do not operate as predicted. These results add important knowledge to a growing literature regarding the neighborhood-level associations between immigration, Latinos, and crime.Latinos and immigrants are rapidly growing segments of the U.S. population and central to current debates about crime in the media and politics. But criminological research on these groups is scarce and its contribution to these discussions is limited. Given that politics and media often perpetuate the stereotype of the "dangerous criminal immigrant," and some surveys show that large percentages of white Americans hold negative stereotypes about immigrants and Latinos (Brader, Valentino, and Suhay, 2008;Geiger, 2006), there is a pressing need for theoretically-based empirical research to shed light on the relationships between crime, immigration, and Latino.Criminological theory, as well as conventional wisdom, typically argue that immigration promotes criminal activity (see Wadsworth, 2010), but this view is not supported by a series of recent studies (see recent reviews in Kubrin