RedState.com founder: "My Red Hair And Pale Skin IS My Passport"

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Joshua S. Treviño, a former speechwriter for the Bush administration and a co-founder of RedState.com, appeared to endorse racial profiling in border control on Monday.

Trevino wrote on Twitter, "Dear Border Patrol: my red hair and pale skin IS my passport, bureaucrats."

After criticism from other Twitterers, he later added, "For the record, kids: that border should be open, open, open. But if you're going to check documents, don't be a fool about it." He went on to say that he himself is half-Mexican (but, apparently, he doesn't look it). Accused of "self-loathing," he replied: "My loyalty is to my country, not my ethnicity."


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/21/joshua-trevio-gop-consult_n_293938.html

Yeah, so apparently, we're the ones who are the racists.

:eyes:

[Walk away]

1. He needs the full, deep cavity search at every border including....

the Vermont / New Hampshire state line!

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Yeah, sure. You can always tell a Mexican by the dark eyes and hair and the Indian facial features

Right, Charo?


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[Cirque du So-What]

6. Charo is Spanish, not Mexican N/T

[Ian David]

3. He's getting beat-up pretty well on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/jstrevino/

[Bozita]

4. Let that sumbitch go visit Windsor, Ontario, and try to come back using his red hair & pale skin.

Have him get a little lippy with those border folks when he explains why he has no passport.

Inform those border folks that HE pays their salaries.

That's what a red-blooded, red haired, pale-skinned American would do.

[aquart]

5. Does he know it could also mean he's Russian, Albanian, or Irish?

Which could mean he's arms or drug smuggling?

[Trocadero]

7. just like Tim McVeigh...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. A family friend married a Mexican man with red hair and freckles

All sorts of Europeans settled in Mexico at one time or another, including Germans in northern Mexico.