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Demovictory9

(36,269 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:49 PM 6 hrs ago

"What hospital were you born at?" the Border Patrol agent asked.

‘I’m 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



‘I’m 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 Gavidia’s 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 hospital’s name. “I was born here,” he shouted at the agent, adding, “I’m 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. We’re all getting attacked.”

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"What hospital were you born at?" the Border Patrol agent asked. (Original Post) Demovictory9 6 hrs ago OP
Never end a sentence with a preposition BOSSHOG 6 hrs ago #1
That is a rule up with which I shall not put!---Churchill Maeve 6 hrs ago #2
I loved my English Teacher BOSSHOG 4 hrs ago #9
A reply which follows this rule: EYESORE 9001 5 hrs ago #7
"At Harvard we don't end our sentences with a preposition." Lucky Luciano 3 hrs ago #14
That was Joe Pesci in "With Honors" JoseBalow 3 hrs ago #16
I don't know the movie EYESORE 9001 36 min ago #22
You must not read anything by DENVERPOPS 3 hrs ago #18
What about people who weren't born in hospitals? Are they now barred from citizenship? Crunchy Frog 6 hrs ago #3
I, for one, DENVERPOPS 3 hrs ago #19
"stirred fears that federal agents are detaining and racially profiling U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent. " Attilatheblond 6 hrs ago #4
It's just too F***ing bad DENVERPOPS 3 hrs ago #20
I was born in a hospital that gives me the right to tell you to kiss my ass. Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #5
I was born in a field. KentuckyWoman 5 hrs ago #6
like my three sisters before me CatWoman 5 hrs ago #8
I was born in a crossfire hurricane. dem4decades 4 hrs ago #10
Winner! dchill 4 hrs ago #11
Nice grammar. BlueTsunami2018 3 hrs ago #12
How about you? Godot51 3 hrs ago #13
Ask the officer DENVERPOPS 3 hrs ago #21
I was born in Los Angeles in a hospital that has long been torn down. So, what does that bit on info buy ICE, iluvtennis 3 hrs ago #15
What hole did you come out of, ICEberg? Wonder Why 3 hrs ago #17

Maeve

(43,265 posts)
2. That is a rule up with which I shall not put!---Churchill
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:11 PM
6 hrs ago

Sorry, couldn't resist! (And I wouldn't have phrased it that way, either)

Lucky Luciano

(11,629 posts)
14. "At Harvard we don't end our sentences with a preposition."
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 05:41 PM
3 hrs ago

Forget the name of the movie you’re citing.

EYESORE 9001

(28,420 posts)
22. I don't know the movie
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:52 PM
36 min ago

but I heard this as a joke sometime in the early 80s. Even the Harvard part.

DENVERPOPS

(12,602 posts)
18. You must not read anything by
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 05:51 PM
3 hrs ago

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......

DENVERPOPS

(12,602 posts)
19. I, for one,
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 05:53 PM
3 hrs ago

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)
4. "stirred fears that federal agents are detaining and racially profiling U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent. "
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:13 PM
6 hrs ago

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.

KentuckyWoman

(7,044 posts)
6. I was born in a field.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:33 PM
5 hrs ago


Most likely I will be gone by the time they get down to beating up old white ladies for their jollies.

Godot51

(495 posts)
13. How about you?
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 05:36 PM
3 hrs ago

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?

iluvtennis

(21,265 posts)
15. I was born in Los Angeles in a hospital that has long been torn down. So, what does that bit on info buy ICE,
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 05:47 PM
3 hrs ago

absolutely nothing.

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