Since starting with Lucha Libre USA when it was founded in 2010, RJ Brewer has become infamous as the company’s resident asshole. He is intimidatingly muscular and marked by a glaring, pushy demeanor, but he’s notorious because he’s made it his goal to degrade Lucha Libre USA’s predominantly Latino audience. It is not uncommon for Brewer to stare down an audience of thousands of Mexican-Americans and tell them he thinks they all need to go back to Mexico.
The point of the Brewer storyline is “to keep the show relevant to U.S. Hispanic culture,” says Lucha Libre CEO Steve Ship. “RJ is a phenomenal wrestler, he’s certainly entitled to his opinion, and I think a wrestling ring is the perfect place to shine light on the topic.”
After his arrest, Cardenas was plucked from the county jail by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, who drove him to a Tacoma detention center. He didn’t get to say goodbye to his parents, siblings, or friends. He never got to see a lawyer—detainees have no right to representation—and after six weeks in a federal detention cell, he was loaded on a plane and flown to Arizona and then bused to the border.
We imagine you can’t go too hard toward the net for a spike, but this is still pretty great.
Comedy/tragedy. Arizona/Mexico fence.
Now that is taking a useless object, and giving it purpose.
Did you know there have been more deportations under Obama than under Bush?
This is just a portion of an incredibly informative infographic from Deportation Nation. Click through to see the whole thing.
