Border Patrol detains Chilean businessman; 'I don't give a fuck of your educated manners' [View all]
Source: The Guardian
US citizens and immigrants with full legal rights to reside in America are being subjected to widespread physical and legal abuses at the hands of US border guards at crossing points with Mexico, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
... Among them are Hernan Cuevas who crossed from Mexico to the US at Calexico/Mexicali on 19 May 2011. A Chilean businessman who works for an industrial manufacturing corporation, he spends most of his working life travelling to and from America and had never before had any trouble with border agents.
He was stopped and his car searched, and when he tried to complain that his property was being roughly handled was astonished by the reaction. He was handcuffed and chained by his big toe to a metal bench, and refused the right to call a lawyer or the Chilean embassy.
In sweltering heat, he asked repeatedly for water but was also refused. Before he was released after almost four hours of detention, an agent allegedly said to him: "I don't give a fuck of your educated manners and all your corporate bullshit. This is my country now and when you are here, you listen to me. I don't like your kind that takes our jobs and uses our system."
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/10/us-mexico-border-human-rights-aclu
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