oh boy. Border Patrol agent detains U.S. citizens for speaking Spanish at Montana gas station

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino...-speaking-spanish-montana-gas-station-n876096

"Video taken by a Montana woman as she and her friend were questioned and detained by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after he overheard them speaking Spanish at a gas station has caught the attention of border patrol officials and civil liberties groups."






i don't think people speaking spanish is enough to merit such an interaction.
i wonder if this guy interrogates every customer service hotline he calls when it says 1-for english, 2-for spanish.

sheeeesh.


it doesn't look like it was a serious altercation, and it is montana i suppose?
the news said the gas station was 30 miles from the Canada border so the agents have jurisdiction so maybe it was within the legal parameters?

and also, couldn't he just run their license plate on the car and avoid unnecessary interaction?
in this day and age of mass media, you can't really get away with stuff like that without ending up on youtube.
 
Eh who needs a middle ground. From sanctuary cities and judges letting illegals out the back door, to asking random brown people for their papers.

Choose wisely.
 
Wait until the bp finds out montana is spanish
 
Oh, great. Those god damned Mexicans are flooding in from Canada now...
 
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Hey look at that.... an unconstitutional search. I'm schocked our system would allow such a thing lol. I doubt speaking Spanish would count as reasonable cause that a crime had been committed. Our country doesn't care about that though. You know coast guard can board your boat, special forces style, in the dead of night without announcing themselves for absolutely ZERO reason? Sadly people don't care about our constitutional rights. They are willing to give them up in the name of safety. It's bullshit
 
that cop looks latinoish. like spanish with some amerindian in him. you guys kind of prvileged that people can cry about being asked to show paperwork. In most of world you just comply you are not so entitled to make a scene about it and cry ´´´why racism´´´.
 
"She said the agent took their IDs and kept them in the parking lot for about 35 to 40 minutes."


that is Bull.Shit.
 
That is an unconstitutional stop. He should lose his job and they should sue the fuck out of the government.
 
Seaside said:
that cop looks latinoish. like spanish with some amerindian in him. you guys kind of prvileged that people can cry about being asked to show paperwork. In most of world you just comply you are not so entitled to make a scene about it and cry ´´´why racism´´´.
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We tend to frown on authorities that abuse their power.
 
Anyone caught speaking anything but the Queens English in America should be shot out of a cannon!

Wait, what? English isn't the official language of the USA? Man, a bunch of you Louisiana folks just dodged a bullet.
 
Seaside said:
that cop looks latinoish. like spanish with some amerindian in him. you guys kind of prvileged that people can cry about being asked to show paperwork. In most of world you just comply you are not so entitled to make a scene about it and cry ´´´why racism´´´.
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They were dumb for crying racism, but they should not have to show their ID without reasonable belief they've committed a crime. Speaking Spanish near the Canadian border is not reasonable cause
 
FacePunch said:
That is an unconstitutional stop. He should lose his job and they should sue the fuck out of the government.
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I think he was doing his job as told to him by his superiors. I'm not for this guy losing his job. He didn't seem overly douchey about the whole thing. I think it highlights the real problem here. That American citizens are being searched without reasonable suspicion they've committed a crime
 
oleDirtyBast4rd said:
I think he was doing his job as told to him by his superiors. I'm not for this guy losing his job. He didn't seem overly douchey about the whole thing. I think it highlights the real problem here. That American citizens are being searched without reasonable suspicion they've committed a crime
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He did it.
 
FacePunch said:
He did it.
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Actually on second thought, you're right. He was being an overzealous ass. Same as the kids that get put in charge of the class when the teacher leaves. Better not say bless you to somebody who sneezes or they'll rat you out
 
I heard 2 ladiesnspeaking Spanish at the supermarket about 20 minutes ago, it didn’t even catch my attention until I got home and read this thread.

I guess I’d be a shitty border patrol agent.
 
Happened in Montana...

2 Hispanic women were grocery shopping. Both US citizens.
A CBP officer stops and questions them, asking for identification, suspecting they are illegal, purely because they spoke Spanish to each other.

After 35 mins of questions and checking their IDs, he let them leave. 1 women did videotape the incident
http://www.krtv.com/story/38208218/...er-patrol-in-havre-for-speaking-spanish-video

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He stopped them because they spoke Spanish, as if that means anything.
 
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