A Sign of the Times: A Border Patrol agent detained two U.S. citizens at a Montana gas station after hearing them speak Spanish
It seems that in the time of Trump, we are hearing many stories like this. Here is one from last week about the video of a New York lawyer verbally attacking Spanish speakers in a Manhattan restaurant. It seems that many people equate speaking languages other than English as foreign and “un-American.”
Amy B. Wang for the Washington Post reports that a Montana woman said she plans to take legal action after a Border Patrol agent detained and questioned her and a friend — both U.S. citizens — when he overheard them speaking Spanish at a gas station. The incident occurred early Wednesday morning at a convenience store in a town in northern Montana, near the border with Canada.
KJ
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