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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJK Rowling brilliantly mocks Trump for saying Hispanic border patrol officer 'speaks perfect English
Trump introduced Adrian Anzaldua as just Adrian. Anzaldua was being honored for discovering 78 undocumented immigrants in a Texas trailer. After calling him up to the platform, Trump reassured attendees that the officer, who reportedly is Hispanic, speaks perfect English, apparently because of his last name, or perhaps because he is not white.
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dalton99a
(81,406 posts)Study hard? Not a possibility
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,664 posts)Seems to portray a Why do I have to be nice to a Brown person? Am I done yet? attitude.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)thought bubble that goes with that facial expression
DFW
(54,302 posts)I speak Spanish. Maybe he'll want to deport me.
Tell ya what, Donald. I'll save you the trouble. I'm off back to Germany before you could even get a court order. Besides, with my Catalan-accented Spanish, no Latino in this hemisphere would ever think I was one of them, anyway.
riversedge
(70,093 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)dipshit may try to deport you. Papers please!
It's about race. It's always been about race. Back in the day the Anglos didn't want Saxons coming to America, and then they both didn't want Southern or Eastern Europeans or Jewish immigrants to ruin America.
Beartracks
(12,801 posts)"Hey, folks, *I* was surprised this guy could speak English, so I thought you would be, too! I was so excited I couldn't wait to tell you that the Mexicans are starting to learn English, starting with Mr. Aaaluuh... Mr. Adrian, here! "
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