{"id":36424,"date":"2019-02-14T20:41:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36424"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:41:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:41:45","slug":"nytimes-a-border-agent-detained-two-americans-speaking-spanish-now-they-have-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36424","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: A Border Agent Detained Two Americans Speaking Spanish. Now They Have Sued."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/14\/us\/border-patrol-montana-spanish.html\">A Border Agent Detained Two Americans Speaking Spanish. Now They Have Sued.<\/a> by Liam Stack:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday against United States Customs and Border Protection on behalf of two American women who were stopped last spring in a small Montana city by a border agent who said he was asking for their identification because he heard them speaking Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>The border agent, identified in the lawsuit as Paul A. O\u2019Neal, stopped the women, Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez, inside a convenience store in Havre, Mont., late on May 16, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges that he commented on Ms. Hernandez\u2019s accent, calling it \u201cvery strong,\u201d and then asked where they were born. Ms. Hernandez was born in California and Ms. Suda in Texas, the A.C.L.U. said.<\/p>\n<p>When the women expressed shock at the agent\u2019s question, he told them he was \u201cdead serious\u201d and asked to see their identification, the lawsuit alleges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: A Border Agent Detained Two Americans Speaking Spanish. Now They Have Sued. by Liam Stack:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36425,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36424\/revisions\/36425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}