Border Patrol pulls over a 20-year-old in Slidell, LA for “white lights on the back of your vehicle… your reverse lights are on the whole time.”
Then, before writing a single ticket, the agent asks: “What’s your citizenship?”
The driver, Alan Laureano, was born in Slidell. His passenger — his 13-year-old stepbrother — was born in Pearl River, Louisiana. Both are U.S. citizens.
Didn’t matter. Twice, on camera, the agent tells Laureano he’s going to “check” the kid and “if he’s illegal, I will take him.”
He tries to open the 13-year-old’s car door himself. Laureano locks it and rolls the window down instead.
The agent then interrogates the child directly — full name, spelling, date of birth, birthplace — while Laureano stands his ground and refuses to hand over his own ID, telling the agent he doesn’t have the right to stop him over a taillight.
Immigration attorney Michael Gahagan reviewed the video and called it what it is: “an illegal detention.” Border Patrol isn’t authorized to detain someone over a traffic violation — they need independent reasonable suspicion of an immigration violation, and that has to come first, not get invented after the stop.
DHS’s after-the-fact statement claims the stop was based on “reasonable suspicion or probable cause of federal law violations” — but doesn’t say what that violation was. WWL Louisiana asked twice. No answer either time.
This is the pattern: pretext stop, pivot to citizenship, threaten a kid with removal before confirming anything. It only looks “routine” until you’re the one being asked to prove you belong in the country you were born in.
Poor Barron Trump. His bros, Andrew Rape and Tristan Rape, are charged with 59 crimes in the UK, from rape and sex trafficking to child pornography and sexual assault. The Rape Bros are fighting extradition.
Hunter Biden on Trump: “Everything he does, from the time he was bankrupting casinos to the time he became president, is all an act. He’s been doing it since his dad handed him a $400M check and he lost most of it and said I’m a self-made man. We’ve known who Donald Trump was from the get-go. He’s a con artist”
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) when asked by The Atlantic if America is ready for a “disabled First Lady”
Mark Kelly: “In my opinion we have a pretty disabled president right now.”
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U.S. soldiers were sent to die in the Middle East for Israel’s wars.
Meanwhile, the families of the people who pushed those wars are enjoying the World Cup from luxury seats.
The ruling class gets the view.
Ordinary families get the coffins.
The Odyssey movie drops and suddenly my timeline is flooded with people who’ve never read a single line of Homer are now personally offended by the color palette.
My brother in Apollo, you thought Circe was a typo until last week.
So, the Trump administration put up some kind of half-assed tarp, presumably to block the view of the reflecting pool, and it looks like it's working about as well as everything else Trump has touched.
Jeffrey Epstein's victims asked a court to unseal his non-prosecution deal, the one that shielded his unnamed co-conspirators.
The United States government filed a formal opposition to keep it sealed.
It fought the victims to protect the deal.