Ex-Arizona governor detained at border checkpoint [View all]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Ex-Arizona governor detained at border checkpoint
Updated 04:48 p.m., Thursday, July 5, 2012
PHOENIX (AP) — Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro, who in the 1970s served as the state's first and only Hispanic governor, was detained at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after the vehicle he was traveling in triggered a radiation sensor.
Castro told The Associated Press on Thursday that he believed the June 12 stop at a checkpoint on Interstate 19 was prompted by the monitor being set off, not by his appearance.
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Castro's wife, however, is calling for changes in Border Patrol procedures. She said the Border Patrol officials need to use "more common sense" when they encounter elderly people who have undergone medical procedures.
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Castro said agents questioned him outside his vehicle in 100-degree heat. He said he explained to them that he had undergone hospital testing on his pacemaker the previous day, likely triggering the sensor.
Castro said he was detained for 40 to 45 minutes; the federal agency said it lasted 10 minutes.
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"Once I identified myself, who I was, and that I had been to the doctor, I was under medical care, I have a pacemaker on my heart, (I would have thought) that they would have been more considerate and said, 'Keep on going.' But that didn't happen," Castro said.
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Castro was the first name that ran through my mind when I saw the headline.
I'm sure most Arizonans thought the same when seeing that headline.
The sad thing, in addition to the story, is that most of us have the same suspicion, and why shouldn't we?
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