{"id":1337,"date":"2017-05-25T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/25\/perez-on-florida-victim-detained-by-border-patrol\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:50:00","slug":"perez-on-florida-victim-detained-by-border-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/perez-on-florida-victim-detained-by-border-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez on Florida Victim Detained by Border Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)\"><!--[if !mso]>\n\n<style>v\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}\no\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}\nw\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}\n.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\n\/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria 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href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/univision-news\/immigration\/are-you-illegal-a-policemans-question-to-a-honduran-who-had-just-been-run-over-by-a-car?hootPostID=383f1e21dc528368d1ec8a9d8a46db2f\"> <span style=\"color:#0563C1\">reported yesterday<\/span><\/a> that a police officer in Florida demanded to know a victim&rsquo;s immigration status before offering medical assistance. Caught on body camera, a Florida man who had been run over by a car was not offered emergency medical care until after a series of intrusive questions from the police officer. After receiving care at a local hospital, the victim was asked to return to the scene of the accident and was detained by border patrol. DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement on the disturbing incident:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">&ldquo;This horrific incident demonstrates the sick culture the Trump Administration is fostering that undermines the relationship between polices and communities.&nbsp; Trump&rsquo;s inflammatory words have made a select few feel as though they have license to abdicate their duties to the communities they serve and forgo human decency. The Trump Administration&rsquo;s crusade against immigrants, and Latinos in particular, is making our communities less safe. It tears at the very fabric of our communities and erodes the American culture of opportunity. Simply put, this is not who we are as a nation.&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\">[VIDEO] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/univision-news\/immigration\/are-you-illegal-a-policemans-question-to-a-honduran-who-had-just-been-run-over-by-a-car?hootPostID=383f1e21dc528368d1ec8a9d8a46db2f\"> <span style=\"color:#0563C1\">Univisi&oacute;n<\/span><\/a>: &#8220;Are you illegal?&#8221; A policeman&#39;s question to a Honduran who had just been run over by a car<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">Everything was recorded on the body cameras of the police who responded to the accident.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">Marcos Antonio Huete, a 31-year-old Honduran immigrant, was lying on a sidewalk next to his bicycle after being hit April 27 by a GMC Sierra pickup truck on his way to work in Key West in the Florida Keys.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">&#8220;You illegal? Are you a legal citizen or no? Speak English? You got ID? Passport, visa, or what? a Monroe County sheriff asked Huete insistently, according to the video.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">Still on the ground, Huete answers with monosyllables before using a cell phone to call his sister, who arrived at the scene soon after.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">Hours after the accident Huete left hospital on crutches and was sent to the Krome Detention Center near Miami, where he has spent almost a month in detention pending possible deportation.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">According to his sister, Olga Huete, after he was discharged from the hospital a police officer told them to return to the scene of the accident. &#8220;He did not tell us why, but we went back because my brother had not done anything. We had no reason to flee.&#8221;<br \/>\n<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"a59ada49-a492-4f1d-ac57-74be3a4194fc\" style=\"display:inline-block;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of Offering Medical Assistance, Police Officer Demands Victim&rsquo;s Papers &nbsp; Univisi&oacute;n reported yesterday that a police officer in Florida demanded to know a victim&rsquo;s immigration status before offering medical assistance. Caught on body camera, a Florida man who had been run over by a car was not offered emergency medical care until after a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Perez on Florida Victim Detained by Border Patrol - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/perez-on-florida-victim-detained-by-border-patrol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-25T15:50:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/perez-on-florida-victim-detained-by-border-patrol\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/perez-on-florida-victim-detained-by-border-patrol\/\",\"name\":\"Perez on Florida Victim Detained by Border Patrol - 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