WE DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE THIS SHIT LYING DOWN.

[kpete]

Link to tweet

[Thekaspervote]

1. Thank you for posting... and thank you Tiana

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Hideous times. Hear her!! Emulate her!! Strong Black women are our superheroes!

[JoeOtterbein]

3. Love it!

Thanks for posting. I feel stronger after reading!

[politicaljunkie41910]

4. Thank you Tiana, on behalf of all those people on that bus, who may have had who knows what done to

them had you not been there and knew what the law says. Thank you. Thank you for that scared lady next to you. Who knows what might have happened had you not been there.

[oberliner]

5. The problem is: Border Patrol can do this if you are 100 miles from a border

And Greyhound is facilitating it.

[treestar]

29. She said they weren't

Google Maps: about 297 miles from Primm, NV to Calexico, CA.

[Ron Obvious]

35. Which is why I'm sceptical of this story.

Mind you, I've encountered the border patrol many times before and I detest the obvious 4th amendment violation that these checkpoints represent, but never in a location this far from the border or (now, sadly) ocean.

But then I'm always sceptical whenever someone widely and proudly shares how they stood up to authority anyway.

Maybe I'm doing her an injustice.

[oberliner]

38. Right - my point is though that they could do this if they were within 100 miles

If someone refused to turn over ID in this situation and they were with 100 miles then they could be in trouble.

[Initech]

6. We should be out in the fucking streets!

Every day we inch closer and closer to Nazi Germany. If people aren't outraged now they're not paying attention!

[treestar]

31. We need to do like she did

Many people will plead guilty to things for which there is little evidence they did, just to avoid a "threat" of jail and to get out of the courthouse with just probation. We could stop up the courts if we always insisted on our full rights, which would stop them from bringing charges for which there is little evidence.

[Cha]

7. Wow! It's good to know there are people like

that out there like Tiana Smalls!

[MontanaMama]

8. Border patrol is bullying.

And the thing is, many folks who ride Greyhound buses are low income. They don’t have the means to fight border patrol if they are detained as undocumented and they can’t fight it when they aren’t. Greyhound is aiding and abetting this horror.

[ProudLib72]

9. BEST ACTION TAKEN TO DATE!!!

Hurray for Tiana Smalls!

[PNW-Dem]

10. Wow

Wow, I was really motivated by that. Our rights are really being trampled.

[PatrickforO]

11. The Border Patrol and other law enforcement seem to want us

to just buckle under like the Germans did back in the 1930s.

We can't do that.

[bdamomma]

33. they want to scare us under submission

sorry this is not going to happen. This is 2018, and we are supposed in to live in a democracy, fuck trump and putin.

[KT2000]

12. they used to do this

in the area of Washington where I live. They would make all cars pull off the road before crossing a bridge and then they demanded documentation. The only person they took to an ICE jail was an American citizen. He was held for days while his family had to get a lawyer to get him out. Senator Murray was notified of what they were doing and she demanded a meeting with the head of Border Patrol in the area. He said no - their work was high security. That lasted about 10 minutes and Senator Murray and Congressman Dicks met with him. The document checks stopped.

I can't stand those guys - they show up for emergency calls taken care of by the police and sheriff dept. They act like military in their 50 lb of equipment. In one of their meetings, one of the agents tried to strangle the boss. I swear they are taking steroids by the way they look. They do pick up people though - one man who had been here many, many years and had his own painting company. They made sure to take him when a house he was painting was half finished. They are assholes.

[njhoneybadger]

13. Tiana Smalls shows how to push back,bigly

[Stuart G]

14. k and r...nt

[Hekate]

15. KnR

[uponit7771]

16. K&R

[ecstatic]

17. Wow! And what does showing "documentation" consist of anyway?

If it's anything more than a driver's license, most people (citizen or not) would be screwed by such a request. I certainly don't drive around with sensitive identity documents!

[Demsrule86]

18. Great job Tiana

[Skidmore]

19. Tweet needs to be shared everywhere. nt

[Maraya1969]

20. "We can see that you're a citizen because of your filthy mouth"

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

[Uncle Joe]

21. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread kpete

[Nevernose]

22. There's no stop from Bakersfield to Vegas

The stop is only going into California.

But even assuming the story is true, it totally misses the point of that stop. It never had anything to do with checking fruits and vegetables. It was started as a way to keep out Okies. Later, a way for California state to set up an illegal checkpoint (for all kinds of things) under the guise of “checking for vegetables.” Once upon a time, I was in a caravan of Deadheads they’d stopped to search all of our vehicles for “undeclared vegetation.”

[treestar]

27. How could they keep Okies out?

There is an absolute right of interstate travel. Nothing legal they could have done to keep anyone from any other state out.

[Nevernose]

34. Beat the shit out of them

Kill them and leave them in the desert. Organize vigilante gangs to burn their camps. Say “Sorry, road’s closed. Turn around” or “Sorry, water’s only for residents of California” or “You look like a vagrant, welcome to ninety days in the county jail.” Just make the migrants’ lives a living hell in every way possible.

Much of that was perfectly legal — just like today. He had a knife. I was defending myself. I was enforcing city codes against homeless encampments. I was enforcing vagrancy statutes. Et cetera.

There’s no such thing as a “right.” You and me and everyone else have only the rights those in authority allow us to have. If you don’t believe me, google “Japanese Americans in California 1942.”

Go read the Grapes of Wrath or some other Steinbeck, then read up on the subject of migrant farm workers in California (regardless of race or time period).

[Bettie]

23. That is awesome

Ms. Smalls has a great deal of spirit and courage. I admire her and her stand on this.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. K&R

[Mc Mike]

25. Vive la resistance. rec, nt

[treestar]

26. I love it!

She is awesome! That is how we all should be. Informed of our rights and ready to stand up for them. Not to just comply.

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. Bravo!!

[TimeSnowDemos]

30. To be clear

America is now a place where we need to fight against police illegally demanding our papers

Lawless behavior is just normal now, yes?

Ridiculous.

And of coursr the entire world can see this, and as a result discourage their family and friends from visiting, perspective employees will look elsewhere to work, and criminals know that there's little legitimate left in the criminal justice system in America.

What a farce.

[bdamomma]

32. K&R

we are not living in Germany in the 1930's fuck that.

We will not be ridiculed we do have rights.

[oasis]

36. "I never 'give em hell' I just tell the truth and they think it's hell"

Harry S. Truman.

[NastyRiffraff]

37. K&R

The Nazis didn't start with death camps. It was a steady drip drip of rights taken away one by one, with the help of established anti-Semitism. Hitler didn't invent anti-Semitism, just as Trump didn't invent racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. Both used what was already there as a tactic of fear and hate.