According to CNN, “Raul Rodriguez says he’ll never forget the moment he realized his life was built on a lie. … It all began in April 2018 when federal investigators showed him a shocking document: a Mexican birth certificate with his name on it. … A conversation with his father soon afterward confirmed what Rodriguez had feared as soon as he saw the paperwork. The US birth certificate he’d used for decades was fraudulent. Rodriguez wasn’t a US citizen. He was an undocumented immigrant. … By his estimates, he’d helped deport thousands of people while working for US Customs and Border Protection and before that, for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Suddenly, he found himself on the opposite end of the spectrum, fighting for a chance to stay in the United States. … But he was also reminded of a fear that haunted him: Before long, he could end up becoming a deported veteran, too. … But he says many of the friends he thought he’d made during his years at the agency have disappeared. ‘They abandoned me because they thought I was illegal,’ he says.”
You reap what you sow! It’s that f***ing simple. I would probably sympathize with this guy if he had picked any other civilian career, but he didn’t. He chose to be that person who would send others of his ethnicity back to “where they came from.” And let’s not pretend that being drawn to border patrol is somehow agnostic to one’s political leanings. It’s not. This guy is, without a doubt, a RepubliKKKlan. It takes a special kind of person, especially of Latino descent, to look upon people crossing the Southern border who are leaving war-torn countries for a better life in America and say, “I’m better than you. Now get out!” So, to Raul Rodriguez, I say: You can get out!