A raid in Montebello, Calif., has stirred fears that federal agents are detaining and racially profiling U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    This is nothing new. Here in Southern California in the 1930s, there were county sheriffs who would routinely round up any Latinos they found, and dump them in Mexico. Many US citizens could never get back, and just lived out their lives in a strange country, their families often never knew what happened.

    We are there again. And with no more birthright citizenship? How can any of us prove we’re citizens? I’m as white as they’re making them, and even I feel vulnerable.