Changes include the nixing of a so-called “Puerto Rico interview guide,” which quizzed individuals on knowledge of the island in order to prove they are from the U.S. territory.
Atteeyah Hollie, a senior attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights, which filed the lawsuit alongside LatinoJustice PRLDEF, said she was struck when she went to Hinesville and realized that many Puerto Rican residents had chosen to forgo driver’s licenses rather than go to the DDS.
“They feared that they would have their documents taken,” she said. “They knew that the possibility of being arrested, or prosecuted and just maligned, was very real.”“He has affected change for the entire community,” Kira Romero-Craft, the managing attorney of LatinoJustice PRLDF’s Southeast office, said of Cabán Gonzalez.
Romero-Craft said she felt disbelief when she first heard about Cabán Gonzalez’s case. She listed some of the questions that people had been asked by the DDS to prove they are Puerto Rican: What do Puerto Ricans call an orange? What color are the uniforms of police officers? There were trick questions, too, such as the name of a nonexistent beach in an inland city, or the length of a nonexistent train trip.Georgia"went to unusual lengths to combat fraud, compared with other states.
While Cabán Gonzalez was not subjected to this quiz, he knew others in his community who were, and believed it was an “unjust” and “racist” policy. He later added that he was concerned residents of the state who didn’t speak English were being marginalized and dismissed. “Just because we don’t speak English doesn’t mean we have any less right to express ourselves or be heard,” he said.
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