Woman Hears Spanish Convo In Montco Store, Calls For Deportation

ABINGTON, PA — A recent incident at an Abington store spurred by a woman who was angered when she heard a conversation in Spanish was captured on video.

The video shows two women in the checkout line at the store exchanging insults. One woman tells the other woman, Johanny Santana, from Puerto Rico, that she should be deported.

"You don't belong here, you came here illegally," she tells Santana.

Santana later told NBC10 that the argument began when a grandfather and grandson were speaking Spanish. Santana reportedly said the woman began cursing. The video begins after that.

"I hope Trump deports you," she tells Santana.

Santana is a native of Puerto Rico, and therefore, of course, a resident of the United States.

Many believed President Trump suggested Puerto Rico was not a part of the United States following a series of comments regarding the island in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Puerto Rico has been a part of the Untied States for more than a century, since 1917.

Later in the video, the woman waved a dollar bill that she was using to pay for her items, saying "Legal money. Not drug money."

Santana said she regretted responding with insults of her own.

"I felt powerless because I didn't speak English well enough to be able to properly respond to her," she told NBC10.

The video has since been shared hundreds of times on Facebook.