Prince William County, Virginia has never been in danger of becoming a pro-immigrant sanctuary city. But it never really hits home exactly how violently anti-immigrant a city truly is until you understand that people who “fit” what an “immigrant” should look like (think: latino, speaks with an accent, etc), are often brutally violated in their own fucking homes simply for fitting that profile.

I know a lot of our libertarian friends will scream right now about how this family shouldn’t have been playing their music so loudly and if the woman didn’t want to be deported she shouldn’t have come here illegally and the cops were just doing their jobs and a whole bunch of other justifications.

But I have to ask those libertarians. Does it not terrify them that you can be sitting at a party with your family and have the police show up and tase you? That your pregnant wife could lean over to help you, and she could be tased too? Sure, yeah, it’s great, yay, we caught us a few more illegals, hooray for us. Now, what rights, what protections, did U.S. citizens just give up so that it could be totally legal and justified to tase a grandfather and a pregnant “illegal” in their own home because they played their music too loudly?

I am not thanking my fellow citizens for allowing their hatred to trample on my rights. Just as I am sure people like Henry Louis Gates is also not doing any thanking.

via bfp on twitter and womanist musings