By Jennifer Medina
Reporting from Los Angeles
June 15, 2025[with videos]
"One agent soon twisted Jason Brian Gavidia’s arm and pressed him against a black metal fence outside the lot where he runs an auto body shop in Montebello, a working-class suburb east of the Los Angeles city limits. Another officer then asked him an unusual question to prove whether he was a U.S. citizen or an undocumented #immigrant.
“What hospital were you born at?” the Border Patrol agent asked.
Mr. Gavidia, 29, was born only a short drive from where they were standing… He did not know the hospital’s name. “I was born here,” he shouted at the agent, adding, “I’m an American, bro!”"
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