ACLU Files Suit Against US Border Patrol Race Soldiers for Detaining 2 American Women Who Looked & Sounded “Illegal" b/c They were Non-White & Spoke Spanish

From [Jurist] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) brought a lawsuit on Thursday against US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on behalf of two women who were detained in Montana after a Border Patrol officer heard them speaking Spanish.

Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez, both US citizens, were in line to buy groceries at a convenience store when they were approached by a Border Patrol officer who asked where they were born and requested to see their driver’s licenses. After they handed him their identification, the officer detained the women for 30-40 minutes in the parking lot until back-up arrived, at which point they were released.

The ACLU’s complaint, brought in the US District Court for the District of Montana, alleges that the arrest was unconstitutional on two grounds. First, the ACLU argues that speaking Spanish does not constitute “probable cause” to justify an arrest and thus the officer’s conduct violated Fourth Amendment search and seizure provisions. Second, the complaint alleges that the arrest violated Suda and Hernandez’s right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment because the officer “singled them out based on race, relying on their use of Spanish as a justification and proxy for race.”

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1946 grants broad discretion to border patrol agents operating “within a reasonable distance from the border.” Havre, Montana, where the women were detained, is located 35 miles from the Canadian border.

CBP policy prohibits its officers from considering race or ethnicity when decided whom to interrogate or detain, but it does not currently restrict its agents from considering language. The ACLU’s complaint requests an injunction to prevent CBP agents from “stopping and/or detaining individuals on the basis of race, accent, and/or speaking Spanish, except where the seizure is based on a specific and reliable suspect description matching such characteristics.” The complaint also requests compensatory and punitive damages for Suda and Hernandez.

4th Amendment Illusion. Lawless cops so frequently abuse their power that no one—no Black or Latino motorist, no juvenile, no adult, no professional of any kind—could make a compelling argument that “constitutional rights” afford any real protection from the government. Believe in them at your own risk.

Dr. Blynd explains, “an abstract fictional entity “government” cannot give you any rights, and even if reality was inverted to accommodate this illusion, anything functionaries of a government pretend to give you they can take away, and the definition of rights is inherent things that cannot be taken away.” FUNKTIONARY further states,

rights - fantasmatic or fictitious objects having no reality in actuality by those imagining as an identity being in possession of them. Rights are cultural gratuities perceived through various fantasy frames, recognized, and sometimes even created, by man's system of law to provide a modicum or pretense of civility under a system whereby their very undermining and violation is vouchsafed. [MORE]