he said, okay. so i gave him my i.d. he went outside. i pay for my items and i picked up my cell phone and i started recording. how long were you in the parking lot? how long did he question you? i believe it was like 35 to 40 minutes for the whole thing. it was that long? yeah. like 40 minutes. so when he said, i want to see your i.d. because you re speaking spanish, i mean, that is most people would consider that racial profiling. does he not understand that? i am not a lawyer, but to me it is. it is a racial profiling. you weren t speaking german or frercnch or some other lang e language? you need to ask them because i don t know what happened. you know, i asked at the last when they gave me my paperwork,
german or french. no. it is wrong. it is profiling. is it illegal to speak a different language? why is he stopping them from speaking a different language? he didn t stop her he. did that s what em. you re not understanding i am understanding it. you re not making sense of he is stopping her because she was speaking spanish. please roll the tape. please roll the tape. this is ridiculous. i can t believe that you re can you tell us for the video police what you asked us for our ids work? the reason i asked you for your ids is because i came in here and i saw that you re speaking spanish, which is very unheard of up here. okay. just write your name and date of birth. because our racial nothing to do with. that it has to do with you speaking spanish in the store of the. spanish in the store. in a state where it is
spanish around here. last time i checked, speaking spanish is not a crime around here. if it was, i would be in jail. but here s the larger point, don. as you know, i m a naturalized citizen. spanish is my first language. i speak spanish at home. we speak spanish everywhere we go. i think they ve even spoken spanish on your show. to me that is a privilege. for me to be able to teach them a second language and a language that more and more people are using here in this country, that is what makes this country great. but what is so scary and incredibly appalling about this is that the occupant of the white house, what he has done, what he has said, the policies that they have supported are what is making this kind of thing more allowable. i just want to get everyone s
we don t know whether he would have if someone was speaking french. we re assuming in this circumstance that there was something other than reasonable suspicion. now, it says in border patrol regulations, and as recent as april 2013, that you can use nationality as a factor in questioning someone. not race or ethnicity but nationality or country of origin. that may seem technical to some people but that s what the law says. but their country of origin is the united states. they re united states citizens. he didn t know if. until he questioned them. but that s profiling them. that doesn t mean that it s not profiling just because it s allowed. it is permitted by the supreme court. but it s wrong. it s wrong because someone is speaking a language. i don t want to hear it. stop, stop, stop. what if they were speaking