So why am I writing about this again? Because it keeps happening and will continue to happen. I expect it to get worse before it may become better when people start suing the departments for not properly training their agents.
I was one of those people that everyone, well, quite a few people, mistook for someone else. I quit buying expensive cars because I was stopped too often.
Back in January 2024, I wrote that people could not tell the difference between a legal and illegal Mexican.
Soon after the start of Operation Wetback, Dr. Garcia, like Cesar Chavez, realized that those Gringos rounding up the Mexicans couldn’t tell the difference between a legal Mexican and an illegal Mexican. To the gueros, all people that look like me (Meme) are Mexicans. So they decided rounding up Mexicans wasn’t such a great idea. FYI, Meme can’t tell the difference between a legal Mexican and illegal Mexican, even Native Americans look like me.
I lived in Oklahoma for a year and a half while attending Oklahoma State University. I visited several Native American Reservations while there. The Native Americans would always ask me what my tribe was.
Here is one more instance of being stopped for being Mexican:
‘I was born in College Station, ‘ U.S. citizen says ICE detained him for nearly two hours
Miguel Ponce says agents handcuffed him, claimed he had a deportation order — and didn’t believe he was a U.S. citizen.
Ponce says the incident happened early Wednesday morning, just as he was heading to work. He told KHOU 11 that ICE agents approached him and asked for identification.
“He says, ‘I need to see your ID.’ I gave him the ID. When I went back down, he said, ‘Get out of the car,'” Ponce said.
“For what?” Ponce said he asked. “‘Get out.'”
He says officers then handcuffed him and took him away.
“I pretty much felt kidnapped. [They] told me I have a deportation order, put me in handcuffs, took me to another location. I couldn’t call my wife — locked up in the back seat.”
Despite showing his ID and insisting he was born in the U.S., Ponce says the officers continued to insist he was someone with immigration violations.