The cases spoke directly to the inordinate force indifferent health bureaucracies can wield in the lives of working-class Latinos, a matter covered in depth in my historical work on the medical border in the Texas borderlands. In July, Melissa del Bosque, the parent of a kid in our son’s wonderful daycare, La Escuelita del Alma, wrote an article in The Texas Observer detailing the hardships caused by South Texas county official’s refusal to provide birth certificates to children born in the United States.
I already had a spectator relationship to this case. It is no accident that the soccer metaphor was at the tip of my tongue. His decision regarding the standard of proof required to grant this injunction made me want to scream (into the Twitterscape): “#nofuepenal.”
District Court Judge Robert Pitman’s decision not to grant the preliminary injunction against the rejection of Mexican, Honduran, Salvadoran and Guatemalan state identity documentation like the Matrícula Consular. #nofuepenal has been resounding in my ears for the last five days after hearing and then reading U.S. In particular, the hashtag should be applied to a call that hurts underdogs’ nearly successful attempts to play and succeed by the rules. For many, #nofuepenal became a near global metaphor for the clear misapplication of commonly agreed standards. Opening 1: Much of Mexico grieved with the referee’s decision to give Arjen Robbben’s dive a penalty in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
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