[seviu]

Not sure if related but this is my story. I am Spanish. When leaving SF back to Europe from a Google IO, after control, waiting to scan my luggage, an officer stood besides me and started speaking in Spanish besides me.

The first minute my brain didn’t register because though Spanish is my mother tongue, I guess it was not ready for that. The police officer started to get irritated. Eventually my brain switched, I had a chat with him and he left.

I was totally freaked out the rest of the time, till the moment I boarded.

Only then I realized how frail our rights are when you are abroad.

[rafram]

This seems very innocuous? Almost a third of Californians speak Spanish natively.