Hat Deportation

From USA Today:

"Woman who knocked off man's MAGA hat now faces deportation"

A woman who was arrested earlier this month at a Mexican restaurant in Massachusetts for an alleged assault in which she knocked off a man's "Make America Great Again" hat is now facing deportation proceedings.  Rosiane Santos was arrested in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Feb. 15 and charged with disorderly conduct, assault and battery for the hat-related disturbance with Bryton Turner, who captured the incident on video.   The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE, has since accused Santos of being an unlawfully present citizen of Brazil residing near Falmouth. On Tuesday, Santos was arrested by deportation officers with ICE's Fugitive Operations Team, according to ICE spokesman John Mohan. After entering into removal proceedings in federal immigrant court, Santos was released from ICE custody, Mohan said in a statement. She now awaits a future court date. The confrontation occurred at Casa Vallarta Mexican Restaurant in Falmouth, a town of 31,000 that is 75 miles southeast of Boston. In the video-recorded portion of the encounter, Santos, 41, approaches Turner, 23, from behind while he  is sitting down at the restaurant.   Santos is seen knocking off his red MAGA hat, a trademark hat of President Donald Trump, making hand gestures at the camera and shouting at Turner, who is from Mashpee, Massachusetts.   "You see this right here?" Turner says in the video. "This is the problem: ignorant people like this. I'm just trying to sit here and have a nice meal. After he puts the hat back on, Santos quickly returns and pulls the hat down over his eyes while pushing his head down toward the bar. "You see this? You see this?" Turner continues.  He spoke calmly but kept calling her names. "People like that, that's the problem. That's the problem with America these days. People are just ignorant. They want to lash out on people who are educated." By this point, Falmouth police had already been dispatched to the restaurant in response to a disturbance. The officers observed the incident and found Santos to be heavily intoxicated with bloodshot eyes, unsteady feet, slurred speech and a strong odor of alcohol. According to a police incident report, Santos told police that Turner  "shouldn't be allowed in a Mexican restaurant with that hat." It took multiple officers to restrain Santos after she resisted an officer's initial attempt to handcuff her, the report says. She was then escorted outside.  "She continued to raise her voice and yell profanities," one of the police officer's said in the account.  During the booking process, the police report says, she yelled profanities and at one point gave the middle finger to an officer.  Santos told Boston 25 News that while she regrets her actions, she was provoked by Turner.   “I had a little bit to drink maybe that’s the reason that I couldn’t walk away but being discriminated for so many times in my life, I just had to stand up for myself," she told the television station. "He’s not a victim. I am the victim. I have been bullied, OK?” Turner told Howie Carr, a conservative columnist at the Boston Herald, that he was sitting at the restaurant's bar with friends when Santos began asking him why he was wearing the MAGA hat.   He said she knocked off his hat three or four times before he took video with his phone.   “I said, ‘It’s America. I can wear this hat wherever I want,'" Turner said, later saying that he believes he was the victim of a hate crime.  “ I was minding my own business and she threw a fit over my beliefs, so I guess by definition, yeah, I am (a victim of a hate crime).”

^ I am sick and tired of people from all sides taking mob-justice out on other people. That goes for those anti-Trump supporters who attack (verbally or physically) pro-Trump supporters and for pro-Trump supporters who attack (verbally or physically) anti-Trump supporters. Santos was in the wrong here the same way you see on different cell phone videos where bigots are shouting for people to "Speak English" or to "Go Back to Your Homeland" are wrong. Two wrongs do not make a right. Santos assaulted a man for his beliefs and now has the threat of deportation against her. If she is in the US illegally then she should be deported because ALL illegal immigrants are criminals (the became criminals when they committed the crime of illegally entering or illegally over-staying their visa.) The ultra-liberals and the ultra-conservatives both breach nothing but hate and violence against anyone who doesn't believe in the same things they do nowadays and that is what is really wrong with this country. Being too liberal is not a good thing the same way being too conservative is not a good thing. I am liberal on some issues and conservatives on other issues - a moderate some would call me. Even if I disagree with you I wouldn't go up and attack you the way the ultra-liberals and the ultra-conservatives currently do. Too much of one thing is not good. You need a balance. The country definitely needs a balance right now. We also need the haters and bigots on both sides to stop calling for mob-justice violence. ^

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/27/massachusetts-woman-who-knocked-off-mans-maga-hat-faces-deportation/3002085002/