$7\mathrm{.}1$ Speaking Spanish at a Border

The article entitled 'A border agent detained two Americans speaking Spanish: Now they have sued' $($Stack$,2019),$ describes a lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the United States Customs and Border Protection on behalf of two American women$-$Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez, who were stopped inside a convenience store in Havre, Montana, by a border agent who said he was asking for their identification because he heard them speaking Spanish. The lawsuit alleges that Customs and Border Protection violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution because the agency did not have probable cause to detain the women. When Ms$.$ Suda asked a Customs and Border Protection supervisor, who arrived on the scene, if they would have been detained if they had been speaking French, he replied: $"$No$,$ we don't do that." In a statement, Ms$.$ Suda said, as a result of that humiliating experience, she and and Ms$.$ Hernandez had been shunned by other residents in Havre. Ms$.$ Suda also said that her daughter was afraid to speak Spanish and now responds in English when her mother speaks to her in Spanish. "This changed our lives, I believe, forever," Ms$.$ Suda said in the statement.

$**$ Using the ideas of the dialectical perspective on intercultural communication, do you find this encounter successful?