Border Patrol Agents Detain Teacher, Her Kids For Refusing To Claim Citizenship

[Stonepounder]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teacher-children-detained-by-border-patrol-agents-for-refusing-to-claim-citizenship_us_59777bb6e4b0c95f375f16a7?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

California teacher Shane Parmely is a U.S. citizen living in San Diego. But when she refused to answer Border Patrol agents’ questions about her citizenship, she and her children were detained for more than an hour.

Parmely posted multiple videos to her Facebook page last Friday showing her confrontation with Border Patrol agents as she passed a checkpoint in New Mexico during a vacation.

“I’m passing a federally funded highway, driving, minding my own business,” Parmely can be heard telling agents in one of the videos she posted. “And I get pulled over and asked if I’m a citizen.”

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WTF!?!?!? Papers Please? What country do we live in where you have to state/prove your citizenship when asked?

This is NOT the country I grew up in. If I was still working, I would be looking for the equivalent of an H1B visa in Canada, or Great Britain, or even Australia.

And it has taken less than 6 months to destroy the United States.

[Lee-Lee]

1. Border zone checkpoints are no something new

And certainly not in the last 6 months. It's been the Le since 1953 that Customs officers can essentially treat anywhere within 100 miles of the border as the same as crossing the border in many ways.

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

I'm sure any of our members who live in the region can tell you how common they are. And all she had to do was say she was a US Citizen and they would have sent her right on her way.

But she had to go all sovereign citizen on them.

[Hangingon]

2. We go thru the Sarita and Falfurias checkpoints. Frequently

Pretty routine. They ask if I am a citizen and I say yes. Never been asked for papers. I have been thru Mexican checkpoints that were a lot more tense.

[mythology]

3. Just because something stupid and bigoted is the law, doesn't mean it should stand

Slavery was legal for many years. Black people having to sit at the back of the bus, etc. Stupid crappy laws deserve to be challenged, especially given we live in a world where cops very evidently have a problem figuring out how to not shoot people. Until they get that minor little problem of killing innocent people and then crying about how afraid (of seemingly everything) they are, I don't see why people should feel the need to show cops respect that they haven't earned.