Ex-Arizona governor detained at border checkpoint
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Ex-Arizona governor detained at border checkpoint
Updated 04:48 p.m., Thursday, July 5, 2012
PHOENIX (AP) — Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro, who in the 1970s served as the state's first and only Hispanic governor, was detained at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after the vehicle he was traveling in triggered a radiation sensor.
Castro told The Associated Press on Thursday that he believed the June 12 stop at a checkpoint on Interstate 19 was prompted by the monitor being set off, not by his appearance.
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Castro's wife, however, is calling for changes in Border Patrol procedures. She said the Border Patrol officials need to use "more common sense" when they encounter elderly people who have undergone medical procedures.
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Castro said agents questioned him outside his vehicle in 100-degree heat. He said he explained to them that he had undergone hospital testing on his pacemaker the previous day, likely triggering the sensor.
Castro said he was detained for 40 to 45 minutes; the federal agency said it lasted 10 minutes.
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"Once I identified myself, who I was, and that I had been to the doctor, I was under medical care, I have a pacemaker on my heart, (I would have thought) that they would have been more considerate and said, 'Keep on going.' But that didn't happen," Castro said.
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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ex-Arizona-governor-detained-at-border-checkpoint-3685918.php
Castro was the first name that ran through my mind when I saw the headline.
I'm sure most Arizonans thought the same when seeing that headline.
The sad thing, in addition to the story, is that most of us have the same suspicion, and why shouldn't we?
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I "met" him, back when he was the governor. He was walking into the Circle K, of all places, and he held the door open for me. No entourage, no security, no cameras. Just the governor stopping at a convenience market at Alvernon and Fort Lowell. 
We lived in a quonset hut about a half a block north of the Circle K.
characteristics, but there *are* members of minority groups (Hispanic, Black, Gay, women) who side with the oppressor side, like Beto GONZALEZ, Clarence THOMAS, Condo RICE, Mee-gwell ESTRADA (to use Orrin HATCH's pronunciation of "Miguel"
, that some of us call Uncle Toms or houseboys or TOOLS. I do not know whether he leans that way given his Democratic background, but the highlights in my link show that he gave away the perfect complaints against the detention (if not the AZ State law).
If not an overt TOOL, he might be, at his 96 years, a remnant of the "genteel" generation of co-existence with the oppressors.
You've got a good point that the enforcing agents were Feds, not AZ officials acting on the AZ law. But his traveling companion said she was not questioned at all. Certainly he was the one with the radiation but she might have been an accomplice if his potential nefariousness were being checked out. And the the issue whether profiling based on appearance is potentially open. Even if the AZ law was not the controlling authority here, a finding against the Feds here might impact the AZ law, no?
ON EDIT: I stopped myself from saying that I was glad this important thread topic wasn't trivialized by idiotic references to the Fidel/Raul CASTROs of Cuba, or even, in the GD thread, references to hair coloring in males, somehow tied in with RAYGUN. But I see that there *are* such references, so I'll add this here.
they most certainly cannot "do what they like".
but at least we know you aren't a lawyer.
