Border agent questions 2 women for speaking Spanish

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 3:10 pm, Monday, May 21, 2018

HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials are reviewing an encounter between a Border Patrol agent and two women who were speaking Spanish at a gas station in northern Montana, the agency said Monday.

The women, who are U.S. citizens, said the agent detained them for about 35 minutes Wednesday in Havre, a small city about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from the U.S.-Canada border. One of the women, Ana Suda, asked the agent why he asked for their identifications.

"I recorded him admitting that he just stop(ped) us because we (were) speaking Spanish, no other reason," Suda wrote in a Facebook post published early Wednesday. "Remember do NOT speak Spanish sounds like is illegal."

Neither Suda nor her friend, Mimi Hernandez, answered their cellphones or responded to text messages on Monday. In Suda's video of the encounter, posted by KRTV of Great Falls, the agent says speaking Spanish "is very unheard of up here."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Border-agent-questions-2-women-for-speaking-12930922.php

[turbinetree]

1. I Know some Japaneses and German, and some Spanish, and Cherokee ...............

[jiminvegas]

2. Then apparently you are not welcome in Montana

They only like the poorly educated.

[McKim]

3. Behind the Times

This Border Patrol agent is way behind the times. My granddaughter is moving to Montana where she will enter a Bilingual Spanish Immersion program. Maybe if this guy were bilingual he could get a better job, like nice jobs I had because I am bilingual. How behind the times can you get?
You mean speaking Spanish like the Hispanic families of New Mexico who have been there for 400 years?