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

[Demovictory9]

‘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.”

[BOSSHOG]

1. Never end a sentence with a preposition

[Maeve]

2. That is a rule up with which I shall not put!---Churchill

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

[BOSSHOG]

9. I loved my English Teacher

Wonderful old schoolmarm.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. A reply which follows this rule:

‘What hospital were YOU born at, asshole’

[Lucky Luciano]

14. "At Harvard we don't end our sentences with a preposition."

Forget the name of the movie you’re citing.

[JoseBalow]

16. That was Joe Pesci in "With Honors"

[EYESORE 9001]

22. I don't know the movie

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

[Lucky Luciano]

23. Found it!

?si=2UWj2q0gWvs6bwI9

[DENVERPOPS]

18. You must not read anything by

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]

3. What about people who weren't born in hospitals? Are they now barred from citizenship?

[DENVERPOPS]

19. I, for one,

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]

4. "stirred fears that federal agents are detaining and racially profiling U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent. "

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]

20. It's just too F***ing bad

the true Native Americans didn't have a border patrol.....

[Attilatheblond]

24. Decent people tend not to think the worst of strangers

They didn't know how much trouble the incoming population would be.

[Irish_Dem]

5. I was born in a hospital that gives me the right to tell you to kiss my ass.

[KentuckyWoman]

6. I was born in a field.

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

[CatWoman]

8. like my three sisters before me

I was born at home

[dem4decades]

10. I was born in a crossfire hurricane.

[dchill]

11. Winner!

[BlueTsunami2018]

12. Nice grammar.

Probably one of those “English only!” people.

[Godot51]

13. How about you?

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]

21. Ask the officer

which outhouse was it that were You were spawned.......

[iluvtennis]

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,

absolutely nothing.

[Wonder Why]

17. What hole did you come out of, ICEberg?