It’s terrible that she has to, but so good that she stands her ground and doesn’t answer their question where she was born, which is meant to create a defensible suspicion post-facto for the illegal stop. And despite the threats that they’re going to “put her in the car” and ID her, they end up walking away.
Also, they take her picture presumably to run it through their facial recognition app and if they ID she was not a US citizen, they likely would use the interaction to claim she falsely IDed herself as a US citizen and arrest her on that basis, even if she didn’t have an existing basis for ICE action.
It’s terrible that she has to, but so good that she stands her ground and doesn’t answer their question where she was born, which is meant to create a defensible suspicion post-facto for the illegal stop. And despite the threats that they’re going to “put her in the car” and ID her, they end up walking away.
Also, they take her picture presumably to run it through their facial recognition app and if they ID she was not a US citizen, they likely would use the interaction to claim she falsely IDed herself as a US citizen and arrest her on that basis, even if she didn’t have an existing basis for ICE action.
These people are the worst scum.