Driving while Brown 0
It’s not about where you’re from. Really and truly, no.
It’s about what you look like. Really and truly, yes.
In a spate of recent cases across the country, American citizens have been confined in local jails after federal immigration agents, acting on flawed information from Department of Homeland Security databases, instructed the police to hold them for investigation and possible deportation.
Americans said their vehement protests that they were citizens went unheard by local police and jailers for days, with no communication with federal immigration agents to clarify the situation.
Via Atrios.
