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BumRushDaShow

(165,256 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:36 PM 11 hrs ago

Latino Border Patrol Agents Deny They're Arresting Their 'Own Kind' in CNN Segment

Source: MEDIAite

Dec 26th, 2025, 12:55 pm


Latino Border Patrol agents hit back at accusations they are arresting and deporting their “own kind” in a CNN segment on rising interest in Border Patrol recruitment under President Donald Trump.

CNN senior national correspondent David Culver was granted rare access to the Border Patrol Academy in New Mexico for a Friday segment that ran on The Situation Room. According to CBP, applications are up 70% from a year ago and more than half of the agents serving on the southern border are Hispanic.

Juan Peralta, a 20-year-old Border Patrol recruit, told Culver he’s received backlash for his decision to join CBP, especially as they have taken part in ongoing ICE deportation operations. “They’re kind of like, wow, you’re starting pretty young or how do you feel about arresting your own kind,” Peralta said about reactions to him joining.

“How do you answer that when you hear that?” Culver asked. “They didn’t come in the right way so they aren’t my kind,” Peralta, whose father was an immigrant, said.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/latino-border-patrol-agents-deny-theyre-arresting-their-own-kind-in-cnn-segment/



He'll learn real fast how this country works.
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SunSeeker

(57,456 posts)
1. Delusional. Or liars. Or both. It's literally impossible right now for Latino migrants to come in "legally."
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 09:02 PM
10 hrs ago

And regardless, being undocumented is not a crime. They should not be brurally arrested without due process, tortured and sent to concentration camps here and in foreign countries without even notifying their families, who are often US citizens.

Fil1957

(508 posts)
3. Reminds me of the "Kapos" who worked for the Nazis in the camps. They might of thought they had some protection because
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 09:53 PM
9 hrs ago

of their duties, but they also ended up in the gas chamber.

2na fisherman

(221 posts)
7. Tio Tacos
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 12:32 AM
7 hrs ago

The Latino equivalent to Uncle Toms. Ultimately they will learn that there is no protection for them from the racism which they help to enforce. Many Maga people vote against their own interests but these ICE pendejos choose to make careers out of it.

usonian

(23,349 posts)
4. It just hit me. Germans who were Jewish weren't "our kind" of German.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:02 PM
9 hrs ago

This is detestable.

We all came the "wrong" way, said the DAR.

No Mayflowet, no American.

Intractable

(1,582 posts)
6. I've read in a few places that young native-born latinos often identify themselves as "white," not hispanic.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:59 PM
8 hrs ago

And they shun those who are not born here.

BumRushDaShow

(165,256 posts)
8. In other words
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 05:24 AM
2 hrs ago

(as other POC will note) "honorary white".... until "the rules change". "Hispanic" is a language group and the sometimes synonymous "Latino" is a geographic designation. That is probably the biggest thing going on in TX. They may have been there generations and think they are "assimilated" but the supremacist will never consider them "assimilated". Ironically some of the loudest ones like that even join supremacists and spout supremacist ideology (like Enrico Tarrio and Nick Fuentes), but don't understand the concept of the white supremacist's core concept and belief of "racial purity" (and that even applies to many southern Europeans like Greeks and Italians/Sicilians, and even Spaniards and Portuguese, who have always been discriminated against by the ethnic northern European-descended "purists" ).

The advent of DNA testing for genealogical purposes helped to blow a lot of this apart though, as supremacy spouters suddenly discovered their REAL genetic make-up and they weren't what they envisioned themselves as being.

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