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Im an American, Bro!: Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/hispanic-americans-raids-citizenship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.Wkac.BAb3tCnvD3bG&smid=url-share
Im an American, Bro!: Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned
A raid in Montebello, Calif., has stirred fears that federal agents are detaining and racially profiling U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent.
They swept into the Southern California car lot last Thursday at 4:32 p.m. masked and armed Border Patrol agents in an unmarked white S.U.V.
One agent soon twisted Jason Brian Gavidias arm and pressed him against a black metal fence outside the lot where he runs an auto body shop in Montebello, a working-class suburb east of the Los Angeles city limits. Another officer then asked him an unusual question to prove whether he was a U.S. citizen or an undocumented immigrant.
What hospital were you born at? the Border Patrol agent asked.
Mr. Gavidia, 29, was born only a short drive from where they were standing, in East Los Angeles. He did not know the hospitals name. I was born here, he shouted at the agent, adding, Im an American, bro!
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I know enough to know this is not right at all, Mr. Gavidia said in an interview. Latinos in general are getting attacked. Were all getting attacked.

BOSSHOG
(42,813 posts)Maeve
(43,265 posts)Sorry, couldn't resist! (And I wouldn't have phrased it that way, either)
BOSSHOG
(42,813 posts)Wonderful old schoolmarm.
EYESORE 9001
(28,420 posts)What hospital were YOU born at, asshole
Lucky Luciano
(11,629 posts)Forget the name of the movie youre citing.
JoseBalow
(7,677 posts)
EYESORE 9001
(28,420 posts)but I heard this as a joke sometime in the early 80s. Even the Harvard part.
DENVERPOPS
(12,602 posts)today's college educated Journalists.........It is shameful.....my favorite of theirs is a plethera of mis-placed modifiers........
TV/CABLE news is the same with that line they put at the bottom of the screen that often contains mis-spelled words......
Crunchy Frog
(27,660 posts)DENVERPOPS
(12,602 posts)couldn't even take a wild guess what hospital my mother gave birth to me.......or in the case of Republicans..where they were "hatched"
Attilatheblond
(6,296 posts)Not fears that federal agents are detaining & racially profiling US citizens of Hispanic descent, they ARE racially profiling people. Saw video of a Navajo lady who was pulled over and treated like a criminal. She and her clan was most assuredly here first.
DENVERPOPS
(12,602 posts)the true Native Americans didn't have a border patrol.....
Irish_Dem
(71,089 posts)KentuckyWoman
(7,044 posts)Most likely I will be gone by the time they get down to beating up old white ladies for their jollies.
CatWoman
(80,009 posts)I was born at home
dem4decades
(12,851 posts)dchill
(42,619 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(4,433 posts)Probably one of those English only! people.
Godot51
(495 posts)Where were you born?
What was the name of the nurse/midwife/doctor who delivered you?
Which port did your ancestors arrive at?
What was the name of the ship that carried them?
DENVERPOPS
(12,602 posts)which outhouse was it that were You were spawned.......
iluvtennis
(21,265 posts)absolutely nothing.