“Carlota Wray squints against a sharp afternoon sun and navigates her pickup along Arivaca Road’s jutting curves and over rattling metal cattle guards. Wray, 56, has been driving this route, in and out of the valley between Arivaca and the rest of Arizona, for nearly her entire adult life.
She has nothing to hide—not underneath her blue sweater vest or in the panels of the car. Wray became a U.S. citizen in 2008 after years of permanent residency. Yet she still cleans out her car every time she sets off toward Tucson. She has to cross a checkpoint and will have to defend what she will never be able to conceal: her Mexican roots.
“I know that Border Patrol abuse Latinos, people with brown skin, as beautiful as God made us,” she says. “I see that my friends, my family are questioned and judged without reason, just for being Latino. They ask questions that are not necessary, but I am not doing anything wrong.””* The Young Turks host Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) breaks it down.
*Read more here from Amy Lieberman / Slate:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/07/arizona_immigration_checkpoint_criticism_border_patrol_harasses_people_and.html