“There is no legal requirement that US citizens carry papers or have proof of their citizenship on them,” said an attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.
Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a flagrant violation of constitutional rights—and a top Trump administration official is claiming the government has the authority to do so.
A Somali-born Minnesota man was alarmed by the practice last Tuesday when immigration agents tackled him, handcuffed him, and arrested him, refusing to accept his REAL ID as proof of his legal residence in a video that was widely circulated on social media.
The man, who identified only as Mubashir, was placed into a chokehold and forced to his knees in the snow on his way to get food in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, which has a large Somali population.
Just a reminder that America does not have a national ID and that while most people think a driver’s license is our ID only 71% of Americans have one. Children, the elderly, people who are too poor to have a car, or people who live in cities that don’t need cars (which is like, 5 cities but is still a notable percent of the population) are all people who may not have an ID and all of them have been rounded up by ICE. This is a further attack on the poor specifically but on the vulnerable in general
All of this is a feature, not a bug.
People in cities are almost all coded as too ethnic, too atheist, too gay, too liberal, too smart, etc…also, if you can punish those who are not properly taking their part in our car culture, that’s a huge win for the trucknutz crowd.
The poor are something the elitists (for all their bullshit talk about things like farming or mining or “the forgotten man”) love to crush anyway. Same for children - they are fodder for wars and the likes of Epstein and Taco’s whims.
Oh I am fully aware, but I find it important to point out the underlying thing they’re exploiting when you see statements like this. Just like passing ID laws and bans on porn are a subtext to censor LGBTQ people
And many Americans on the right would tell you that a national ID is government overreach. Yeah I heard that from a coworker last year.
It’s even worse! At least in the Nazi trope they were polite about it; ICE meanwhile will just fucking tackle you.
More like “papers, [racial slur]!”
Remember when lots of the right and so-called centrist moral scolds would get all inflamed when someone were to call Republicans fascists?
Watch your tone, they’d cry, and then blather about things like Godwin’s Law or lecture about how calling Republicans fascist is just as bad as saying the n-word, or something…people like Tucker would say that if someone like him were to be fascist, it would be the fault of liberals because, really, what choice did he even have, and so on?
Plenty still will. They’ve decided both sides have a point and both sides exaggerate and both sides are pretty bad but not fully evil. They define themselves as between the two parties. The right realized that and ran all the way right, especially as they noticed many on the right defined themselves as to the right of the centrists, however far they were when they first thought of their views.
To accept what is happening requires accepting that loved ones among masses have adopted beliefs once reserved for foolish, reprehensible, evil losers. But few among us have grappled with what our ancestors who we may have known, believed before the invasion of Poland.
This is how Trump plans to go after black people.
Well, I doubt it stops there.
No doubt.
If Trump says it’s the law now, it may as well be
