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> There were only a few consular officers of color in Juarez. They, too, had been pulled into secondary inspection a few times at the border, but CBP officers s
by air7 6y ago
> There were only a few consular officers of color in Juarez. They, too, had been pulled into secondary inspection a few times at the border, but CBP officers seemed to be more aggressive with me, probably because I had begun regularly to ask to speak to a manager whenever I was pulled to secondary inspection.
She might have just gotten on their "annoying-persons" list. If this was indeed race driven than the other black officers would have a similar track record and it would have made a much more damning post with their combined experiences. The fact that she doesn't mention their stories leads me to believe that her experience was much worse than the other black diplomats.
Be it incompetence (a recurring glitch in the computers) or malice (the guards were harassing her personally) it doesn't seem to me to be clearly caused by racism.
- perl4ever 6y agoAuthorities everywhere will harass people they consider troublemakers, but that doesn't suggest at all that they aren't racially biased in who they consider troublemakers.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoShe might have just gotten on their "annoying-persons" list This is the Juarez-El Paso border crossing, not a reenactment of "The Comedians" with Richard Burton and Liz Taylor. First rule of government interaction: if it can be used against them it can also be used against you. Police shitlists should never be used as an explanation, rather they should serve as a call for savage consequences.
- tehwebguy 6y agoWhat a deeply sick culture at CBP to allow & protect this level of incompetence, malice and/or racism. I doubt that org can be fixed at all.