SPEAKING SPANISH GOT 3 MEMBERS OF A FAMILY TOSSED INTO THE MILWAUKEE DETENTION CENTER
While we knew it was safe to expect a host of ugliness with Trump’s chumming the water with immigration enforcement -even adding a bunch of sharks to the frenzy- this simple story riled me up in particular. It doesn’t involve children being separated from their parents, or ICE being turned away from an elementary school, or members of churches suing over feeling unsafe because their churches are literal sanctuaries. No, this is pretty simple and cut and dry, and highlights just how dangerous, even lawless, this process already is. Apparently, authorities themselves are now officially Karens, with the news that 3 members of a family got tossed into the Milwaukee detention center. Why? Because they were speaking Spanish.
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PROBLEM IS, THESE 3 FAMILY MEMBERS SPEAKING SPANISH WERE AND ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS
Now, apparently, with the Orange Imprimatur setting the bar on American moral standards (meaning none whatsoever), speaking Spanish in a department store is all it takes for Karens with guns, or U.S. Officials of some kind, to strip people of their basic rights with nary a twitch of concern for civil liberties. And before anyone gets too defensive on behalf of these officials, it’s an important note that all 3 members of this family who got thrown into a detention center are American citizens. And all it took was some enabled Karens with guns to hear them speaking Spanish, which around 40 million people in America speak. Or, about 13% of the entire American population.
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THERE WILL BE MORE STORIES OF FOLKS TOSSED INTO A DETENTION CENTER FOR LOOKING AND SOUNDING DIFFERENT (THAN WHITE)
So the family- I mean the American family, were able to get released but only after they provided not just ID, but birth certificates. And yes, they got an apology for the whole situation. But apparently that apology didn’t include transportation home from the detention center. That they had to pay for out of pocket. And by “they,” or this American family, I’m talking about the elderly woman, her daughter, and the former’s baby grandson. So if you are a native Spanish speaker (of whatever American generation) and don’t look like an aristocratic pale Conquistador, you just might want to start carrying around a digital copy of your birth certificate.
Or, the new fancy extra secure passports that you can add to your phone. Because that’s where we’re going, folks: “Papieren, bitte!” And if you don’t get the reference from the cold war and East Germany, go figure it out. It ain’t good, especially if you’re not pale white.
