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In reply to the discussion: The NVC rejected my marriage certification. My wife's Green Card is dead [View all]AZLD4Candidate
(5,680 posts)When she was detained, they asked so many leading question (I have the affidavit) that she would have confessed to assassinating Kennedy because they used her naivety and ignorance against her.
As soon as I saw what the did, I told her she would never enter this country alone EVER again. Let them pull their leading, loaded questions crap on her. BTW, even though she is near-fluent in English, they didn't provide her an interpreter when she didn't understand the questions asked, or the nature of the questions asked.
Then they called her nasty anti-Chinese things when they locked her in the airport with just a ratty mattress in the room (telling her that's all she deserved), took her phone from her so I didn't know where she was for three days, gave her two fifteen minute bathroom uses a day, and treated her worse than we treat inmates in prison.
Why? Because CBP has no oversight and unlimited power. Visas are just "invitations." Even with Immigrant Visas, they can deny you entry for any and all reasons, or none (like they do with your wife, exercising their power).
They've thrown me into secondary as an American citizen in Nogales at least a half dozen times because I refuse to answer personal questions like "where do you life," "what were you doing in Mexico," "How long were you there," and "when was the last time I went," among others. In my eyes, they have can ask two questions: "What's my citizenship" (that the passport proves immediately), and "are you bringing anything back." Everything else I respond with silence or "none of your business."
I'm even worse at the Border Patrol checkpoints on I-19, or just off the Tohono o'Odham Nation entering Tucson on Ajo Way. I don't even acknowledge their existence. They've always pulled me into secondary, but then I start screaming "not answering your questions is not a reason to pull me into secondary under the Supreme Court case Martinez-Fuerte. Would you like me to read it to you?" They've actually told me they don't care what the Supreme Court says. The Border Patrol is just as unaccountable and out of control as CBP and ICE (and all law enforcement for that matter).
At a House Party fundraiser, I was asked what I would do, if elected, about the Border Patrol and their abuses (because they abuse the Tohonos here too. . .profiling, destroying their private property, disrespecting their children, ignoring speed limits and traffic laws, etc). I simply said "I am running for the State House. Immigration unfortunately is a Federal Issue under Article One of the Constitution. But I believe the issues with CBP, ICE, and BP would and could be solved if we just implemented a 50 year hiring freeze." It gets very positive reactions.