# Not all brown people are illegal immigrants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-all-brown-people-are-illegal-immigrants/591479 "2011-08-04T17:22:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-all-brown-people-are-illegal-immigrants/591479/3 "2011-08-04T17:39:42Z")
Surely I don’t have a reputation here as a member of the offenderati, or as someone who is overly politically correct. With that context laid, I have to say that the OP here, **Kevbo** , has a point. The OP of the original thread said: > [@My ex's hispanic girlfriend used my ID to get a job](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-exs-hispanic-girlfriend-used-my-id-to-get-a-job/591394/1): > > Hello, > A few years ago my ex husband then hispanic girlfriend used my ID and my name to get a job at a Red Lobster in Provo, Utah. They have since married and my assumptions is she has become a citizen because of the marriage. I can’t see any value whatsoever in identifying her as Hispanic. Obviously the inference desired is that she was not a citizen, and was not authorized to legally work, a situation that might apply to any immigrant, even some here legally – say, a pasty white British citizen on a tourist visa. The explanation that calling her Hispanic provides the backstory with a minimum of work is just as offensive. Why not simply: A few years ago my ex-husband’s then-girlfriend, who I assume couldn’t work legally in this country, used my ID and my name to get a job at a Red Lobster in Provo, Utah. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-all-brown-people-are-illegal-immigrants/591479)._