Two US citizens detained by a Border Patrol agent for speaking Spanish

iycrmm:

mostlysignssomeportents:

Ana Suda and her friend, Mimi Hernandez, were born in the United
States. They live in Montana. On early Wednesday morning they went
grocery shopping. A uniformed Border Patrol agent heard them speaking
Spanish to each other and demanded to see their identification. When
they asked him if they were being racially profiled he said, “Ma’am, the
reason I asked you for your ID is because I came in here, and I saw
that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here.
It’s the fact that it has to do with you guys speaking Spanish in the
store, in a state where it’s predominantly English-speaking.“ He
detained the women in the store’s parking lot for 35 to 40 minutes
before letting them go.

When the Washington Post
contacted US Border Patrol for a response, a spokesperson said, “U.S.
Customs and Border Protection agents and officers are committed to
treating everyone with professionalism, dignity and respect while
enforcing the laws of the United States. Although most Border Patrol
work is conducted in the immediate border area, agents have broad law
enforcement authorities and are not limited to a specific geography
within the United States. They have the authority to question
individuals, make arrests, and take and consider evidence.”

https://boingboing.net/2018/05/21/two-us-citizens-detained-by-a.html

In this context, it’s also worthwhile to take another look at https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 22 May 1920, the anti-Semitic hoax document the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was printed by auto industry mogul Henry Ford in the Dearborn Independent, inaugurating a policy of anti-semitism in that paper. The paper was sold in all Ford outlets, and had a circulation of 700,000. For his efforts, Henry Ford was later presented with the Grand Cross Of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle by Adolf Hitler, the highest Nazi order which could be awarded to a non-German. More info about Ford and other big corporations helping the Nazis in this excellent article: https://ift.tt/20t0EmY https://ift.tt/2s33CFv

neaq:

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#visitorpicture by @broken.midas #jelly #ujelly #jellyfish #newenglandaquarium (at New England Aquarium)

ajax-daughter-of-telamon:

mirrorreaper:

autistickeely:

Does anyone else have problems with processing what people tell you? My mum will tell me something and I listen to her but it doesn’t process. Mum said “I’m off out now like I told you” and I said “Wait what? You never told me”, Mum then got annoyed and said “Why do you never listen to me?? It really frustrates me!” I feel super guilty and try to explain but she doesn’t understand. However hard I try to process information it just doesn’t stay in. It’s not like when I’m told I remember, I just don’t remember ever being told that information. It’s so annoying!!

yeah thats super common for autism whether its a concurrent auditory processing issue or whether you dont LOOK like youre listening because we dont make eye contact because it muddies up processing. Very spicy autism thing.

Words are very hard to hold onto! It’s not just you!