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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 82 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Jensy Machado, a naturalized US citizen from Virginia, believes US immigration agency profiles Hispanic people

According to Machado, the agents told him the name of a man who had a deportation order and had given Machado’s home address. He responded by telling the agents that man’s name wasn’t his – and offered to show them his Virginia driver’s license.

But he says that the agents did not ask to see his ID. Instead, they ordered him to leave his car, and they placed handcuffs on him. An agent then asked Machado how he got into the country.

“And I told him I was an American citizen,” Machado said. “He looked at his other partner like, you know, smiling, like saying, ‘Can you believe this guy?’”

[–] Shawdow194@fedia.io 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Hispanic man questions supporting an administration that doesnt support hispanics"

[–] raptir@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Hispanic man questions supporting an administration that ~~doesnt support hispanics~~ explicitly targets hispanics."

Ftfy.

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Minorities of any kind

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 32 points 3 months ago

“I was a Trump supporter,” he said on Wednesday. “I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to be like ... against criminals, not every Hispanic, Spanish-lookalike.”

Gee wiz, if only someone warned people that trump would act like a total racist and xenophobe when it came to anti-immigration...

The two men with Machado were taken into custody, but he doesn’t know why.

Because they were accomplices to a dirty illegal mexican, duh

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Lucky him, I never really get anything out of my vote :(

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m curious if he would have felt the same way had he become aware of any Hispanic US citizen being detained by ICE, or if he only feels this way because it happened to him, specifically.

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Sure, otherwise he wouldn't have supported Trump in the first place.

[–] Aliktren@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

You won, get over it

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

You didn't figure that out when "Haitians are eating pets" was a major campaign point even though everyone near the applicable town emphatically called bullshit? Or when Trump promised to deport between 11 and 21 million illegal immigrants streaming in from Latin America?

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

What a bad hombre

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

R-- Really?! They found a sentient one?!